Re: why does "jobs | wc" not work?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:09:15 +0000, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> This isn't strictly a bug, but there's a workaround in the 4.1 code.
> 
> In zsh
> 
> jobs | anything
> 
> causes the shell to fork for the left hand side of the pipeline.  This
> is then no longer the shell with the job control, hence doesn't show any
> jobs.  Other shells fork the `anything' and run `jobs' in the current
> shell.

But with bash for instance, both

  jobs | cat

and

  true | jobs

work. So, it seems that jobs still works even in a child process.
The same thing that 4.1 does?

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