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Re: `jobs' builtin does not work with pipe in scripts

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From: Marc Weber <marco-oweber@xxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: `jobs' builtin does not work with pipe in scripts
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 00:56:37 +0100
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ZyX,

I think you should provide more context. Its almost impossible to try to
find a workaround. Eg you could use /bin/sh

/bin/sh -c 'sleep 1s & sleep 1s & jobs | cat ' | while read .. ?

Anyway you seem to have found something which works for you.

Marc Weber

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