Re: Reducing KODRETRY

Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> pine ()
> {
>    jobs -ls pine > /dev/null && fg || \pine
> }
>
> which is small enuff that you could even get it into an alias...
>
> alias pine='jobs -ls pine > /dev/null && fg || \pine'

Brilliant!  Too bad I'm using tcsh: I'm coming to the conclusion I really should
be using another shell like bash which doesn't have a brain-dead way of handling
built-in commands.  Try as I might, I can't test the exit code, nor pipe from,
"fg %pine" in tcsh, rendering all these methods useless.

Joseph Tam <[email protected]>
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