Re: Idea: jobs(1) -i to print only :%ID:s

[alex xmb sw ratchev]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 10:18 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Nov 09 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> >     re='^\[([0-9]+)\]'
> >     jobspecs=()
> >     while IFS= read -r line; do
> >         if [[ $line =~ $re ]]; then
> >             jobspecs+=( "%${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" )
> >         fi
> >     done < <(jobs -l)
>
> That fails for multi-line commands that happen to contain matches for
> re.
>
> $ (sleep 100; printf $'\n[100]\n') &
>

a suggestion for the future , that bash coding keywords have own isf osf
var following , so i can have null or other separated , by code builtins ..

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