`jobs` within command substitution doesn't work
Christoph Anton Mitterer <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:25:40 +0200
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.dash |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hey. With dash 0.5.12-9 from Debian unstable, it seem jobs doesn't work within command substitution. In bash: $ sleep 60 & [1] 140013 $ jobs -p 140013 $ echo $(jobs -p) 140013 $ but in dash: $ sleep 60 & $ jobs -p 140049 $ echo $(jobs -p) $ Not really sure whether that’s behaviour which POSIX would allow, but at least it makes it more or less impossible to easily get the PIDs of and jobs within scripts. Cheers, Chris.