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Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?

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From: Goran Koruga <goran.koruga@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: get the number of active jobs to show in the prompt?
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:09:54 +0200
In-reply-to: <200110010600.f9160iq10821@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from drewp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 10:56:50PM -0700
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On Sun, Sep 30 2001, Drew Perttula wrote:

Hi,

export PS1="`jobs | wc -l`" should work if you have PROMPT_SUBST set.
However, while testing it, I noticed that jobs | wc -l always prints 0
(other commands can't get its output either), so someone else will have
to explain you why this happens.

Goran

> 
> Hello everyone-
> 
> I'm tired of using my close-window shortcut to zap shells
> that still owned running programs, so I'd like my zsh prompt
> to indicate that somehow. I can't figure out how to do anything
> programmatically with the 'jobs' command (such as "jobs | wc -l"),
> so I'm lost as to how to do my prompt trick.
> 
> TIA for any help
> 
> -Drew
> 

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