Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:52:19 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@gmx.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jobs control in a /bin/sh script Message-ID: <20160710175219.48ef1d1a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <930cbcd1-2345-8a55-1b87-1691f5aa09a1@gmx.com> References: <930cbcd1-2345-8a55-1b87-1691f5aa09a1@gmx.com>
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On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 18:34:40 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to redirect "jobs" output? > While this works on other bourne-like shells like zsh > or bash, it doesn't on /bin/sh. > > > $ sleep 100 & > > $ sleep 100 & > > $ jobs -p > > 1760 > > 1761 > > $ jobs -p | cat > > $ > > My code looks like this: > > for j in $jobs > > do > > ( > > blah; blah; blah; > > ) & > > done > > and I'd like to limit the number of jobs my script could create. How about this? JOBS=`jobs -p` for j in $JOBS; do # ... whatever you need to do with $j ... done Or the iteration just shortened: for j in `jobs -p`; do # ... whatever you need to do with $j ... done -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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