Hi, Thanks for all the help! I created a PR with this workaround on the Starship repository: https://github.com/starship/starship/pull/5253
Regards, Ajeet On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 12:00 AM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 6/14/23 6:12 PM, Ajeet D'Souza wrote: > > Hey Chet, > > > > Thanks for the quick reply. I have some follow-up questions: > > > > * Is there an elegant way I can start an external process without it > > showing up under jobs, even on affected versions? My current best > idea > > is: (_="$(/bin/echo)"; jobs -l) > > You can try to disown it. > > > * Is there an elegant way I can get the correct number of jobs, even on > > affected versions? My current best idea is to run jobsonce before > doing > > the count: (jobs &> /dev/null; jobs | wc -l) > > You have to get the jobs you're not interested in removed from the jobs > table. That's as good a way as any if you don't know the job number or > if it's not the current job. > > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ > >