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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about job control in non-interactive shells
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:37:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120109163745.GA23825@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tntr4z8j1fk.fsf@waterbuck.yellow.cert.org>

Hi Michael,

Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:

> I am trying to determine why:
>
>   dash -c "sleep 5 & kill %1"
>
> results in:
>
>   dash: 1: kill: No such process

You are probably looking for the -m option.

Thanks for writing, and hope that helps,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-09 16:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-09 16:17 Question about job control in non-interactive shells Michael Welsh Duggan
2012-01-09 16:37 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2012-01-13 15:49   ` Jilles Tjoelker
2012-01-15  3:53     ` Herbert Xu

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