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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Question about job control in non-interactive shells
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:37:45 -0600
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To: Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
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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