Re: job control

[Chet Ramey]

> I'm not sure this is a bug, but I'm unable to do simple job control from =
> within a bash script. But I can from the command line, for instance:
> 
> $ { sleep 10 & jobs -p; }
> [1] 30672
> 30672
> 
> Works just fine but this script won't produce any output.
> -------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> sleep 10 &
> jobs
> -------------------------
> 
> I'm trying this with bash 2.05.1 on linux mandrake, I get the same =
> results on a solaris 2.5.1 machine with bash 2.03.0.

Job control is not enabled by default when the shell is not interactive.
Add `set -o monitor' to your script.

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