mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) (12/08/88)
Hello, Given host% jobs [1] Stopped foo a [2] Stopped foo b How can I bring either job fg by using fg %string? I do not know what the difference between the two jobs are only that they are different. Meaning I can't do `fg %?a`. What I would like to do is something like fg %foo a fg '%foo a' fg %'foo a' I tried evaling the previous examples but that doesn't work. Double quotes don't help either. I always get one of the following: fg: Ambiguous. fg: No such job. Please don't suggest that I modify the string some way, I can't. That includes taking subparts. Thank you -- Michael DeCorte // (315)265-2439 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clarkson Archive Server // commands = help, index, send, path archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu archive-server%sun.soe.clarkson.edu@omnigate.bitnet dumb1!dumb2!dumb3!smart!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!archive-server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
dmk@pilot.njin.net (David Katinsky) (12/09/88)
How about
%fg %1
or
%fg %2
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dmk@pilot.njin.net {wherever}!rutgers!dmkmaart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) (12/09/88)
mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
\host% jobs
\[1] Stopped foo a
\[2] Stopped foo b
\How can I bring either job fg by using fg %string? I do not know what
\the difference between the two jobs are only that they are different.
\Meaning I can't do `fg %?a`. What I would like to do is something like
\fg %foo a
\fg '%foo a'
\fg %'foo a'
How about the following?
alias fg 'jobs > /tmp/jobs$$; set j=(\!*); set j="$j"; eval %`'\
'grep -e $j:q < /tmp/jobs$$ > /tmp/job$$ &&'\
'sed -n "s/.\(.\).*/\1/p" /tmp/job$$ || echo $j:q`'
Example:
% jobs
[1] + Stopped vi hhh
[2] Stopped cat
[3] - Stopped vi hh
Now my solution works for:
fg
fg -
fg cat
fg c.t
fg ' hh$'
fg \ hh$
fg i hhh
etc.
To anybody ready to follow-up on simplifying the alias: you'd better check
if your solution doesn't choke on the `fg' examples!
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