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Re: jobs command and pipes

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From: "Zefram" <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: monnier+lists/zsh/users/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu (Stefan Monnier)
Subject: Re: jobs command and pipes
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:01:18 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <5lemrqrpqp.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Stefan Monnier" at Oct 30, 98 11:14:38 am

Stefan Monnier wrote:
>Now the question is:  why "on the left hand side" rather the other ?
>Zsh isn't particularly lean and mean, os mayb eit makes sense to offer the
>choice so that "jobs | something" can work (and so that we can choose which
>process' exit status will be used for the whole pipe's exit status ?

We almost have that already.  "jobs >>(tr a-z A-Z)" works, except that
it doesn't wait for the tr to terminate.  Perhaps that should be changed.

-zefram

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