Re: fg jobs info

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On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote:

> Have a look at the variables jobdirs, jobtexts, and jobstates in the 
> zsh/parameter module.  Or there's a lazier way out:
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that seems reasonably elegant... as long as a) there's only one suspended 
job or b) jobs are only referred to by number :(

if the there's more than one job and either 1) the current job is implied 
or 2) a job is specified not by job number, things get messy.


> } unless there's a way to simulate the fg command (ie; a "-n" dry run
> } argument)
>
> The "jobs" command should accept all the same job-identifier patterns
> as "fg", and in recent zsh "jobs" doesn't lose track of the job list
> when run in a subshell, so you can do things like
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that doesn't seem to work in 4.3.2. i'm using versions as old as 4.2.1 so 
the foo=$(jobs) trick won't work all around, and it's hackish enough that 
it fails to inspire an upgrade.


also, here's a case where (given what i'm trying to do) i'm confident that 
anything would fail (at least partially), short of some non-trivial 
updates to zsh:

% man sh
^Z

% man zsh
^Z

% jobs
[1]  - suspended  man sh
[2]  + suspended  man zsh

% fg %1 %2



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