Re: simple prob?

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

good debugging, yea i missed the n # count char, i type stupidly from a
cell foun, ..
and yea leftover arr ekements exceots when u just use the first one as n
i just wanted to show shorter code

i also made somewhen a which_pid_exited resolver etc

peace

On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 11:10 Phi Debian <phi.debian@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:24 AM Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> jobsn=( $( jobs -p ) ) jobsn=${jobsn[@]}
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> This give
> PW$ jobsn=( $( jobs -p ) ) jobsn=${jobsn[@]}
> PW$ echo $jobsn
> 3644 3645 3646 3647
>
> I guess you meant  jobsn=${#jobsn[@]}
>                                              ^ You missed the '#'
>
> Yet there are some left over
> PW$ jobsn=( $( jobs -p ) ) jobsn=${#jobsn[@]}
> PW$ echo ${jobsn[@]}
> 4 3645 3646 3647
>
> So it is not clean, and the OP want a function with a named output arg.
>
> Yet to elaborate on your technic may be this one is a little cleaner
>
> PW$ jobsn=$(printf '%c' $(jobs -p)) jobsn=${#jobsn} ; echo $jobsn
> 4
>