I was unaware of TMOUT. Now I have a backup as well. Thanks for tolerating my inexperience. On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 2:54 PM, Greg Wooledge<g...@wooledge.org> wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 07:41:43PM +0000, John Larew wrote: > After further examination, the examples with "fg $$" and "fg $!" clearly do > not bring the subshell into the foreground, as they are evaluated prior to > the subshells background execution. > I'm trying to bring the subshell to the foreground to perform an exit, after > a delay. > Ultimately, it will be used as part of a terminal emulator inactivity timeout.
Bash already has a TMOUT variable which will cause an interactive shell to exit after a specified length of inactivity. Is that sufficient? If not, how does your desired solution need to differ from TMOUT?
