Re: Unsubstituted variables in "jobs" output

[Chet Ramey]

> Consider the following:
> $ AA=aa; BB=bb; (sleep 10; echo  $AA $BB) & jobs
> [1] 6626
> [1]+  Running                 ( sleep 10; echo $AA $BB ) &
> If there any way tell jobs command to output AA and BB substituted with
> their values?

The variables are expanded in the subshell, not in the parent shell
maintaining the jobs table.  There's no guarantee that the parent shell
and the subshell have the same values for AA and BB.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/