Hello,
I was debugging a larger script, and found that the buildtin jobs command does
not work in bash scripts, altough it does in an interactive shell:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp.nobackup$ cat testjob
#!/bin/bash
sleep 35 &
jobs -p %%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp.nobackup$ ./testjob
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp.nobackup$ . testjob
17825
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp.nobackup$
It might be a feature, in the man page, I read:
The symbols %% and
%+ refer to the shell's notion of the current job, which is the last
job stopped while it was in the foreground or started in the back-
ground.
...but I don't read out of that that it does not work in a non-interactive
shell.
I know it worked before in that script and ksh does not make a difference
between interactive and non-interactive shell. But I don't know
Any comments are welcome.
Thanks,
Rainer
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