Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:08:06 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jobs control in a /bin/sh script Message-ID: <20160711200806.14b4e22f.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <3b55e09b-13d3-bdf2-e366-2c798ca9c1d2@gmx.com> References: <930cbcd1-2345-8a55-1b87-1691f5aa09a1@gmx.com> <20160710175219.48ef1d1a.freebsd@edvax.de> <3b55e09b-13d3-bdf2-e366-2c798ca9c1d2@gmx.com>
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 21:49:51 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On 07/10/16 18:52, Polytropon wrote: > > JOBS=`jobs -p` > > Thank you, that would do what I want. It's rather strange that > the other construct doesn't work. But this workaround would do:) In case of a shell script, calling the "jobs" command will invoke an internal (shell builtin) command, and this one seems to be unable to use redirection. There also is the /usr/bin/jobs binary, but it doesn't seem to work as desired in the scripting context... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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