Re: [PATCH] silent job monitor when 'set +m'

[Jan Schampera]

Jeff Chua schrieb:

> The man page mentioned that 'set -m' should print 'a line containing
> their status upon their completion' ... which should imply 'set +m'
> should NOT print the status.
> 
> Attached is a patch to 'silent' bash so that it won't print the status
> when 'Monitor mode' is off (set +m).
> 
> If this is not the right place to do this, please suggest an alternative
> to silent bash when 'kill %!' is executed.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff

A workaround is to diswon the monster. But yes, I also stumbled over
this once. See
http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/snipplets/kill_bg_job_without_message


J.