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Re: wait -n -p var assigns a random number to var if there are no jobs
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: wait -n -p var assigns a random number to var if there are no jobs |
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Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:49:51 -0500 |
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On 12/11/20 5:25 AM, Oğuz wrote:
See:
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.1.0(1)-release
$
$ jobs
$ wait -n -p var
$ echo $var $?
66390280 127
If it left `var' unset that would be way more helpful to determine whether
one of the jobs exited with 127 or all the jobs were waited for and none
left.
Thanks for the report. That makes sense.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/