Re: "builtin jobs" does not output to stdout.

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/14/23 2:39 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
> > Yes. As described in later messages, there is a special case that allows
> > the output of `jobs' to be piped. This came in at some point between
> > bash-1.05 (March 1990) and bash-1.08 (May 1991). I never extended this
> > special case to `builtin' or `command'.
>
> Is this (are these) special cases documented?  I just looked through my
> (admittedly obsolete) bash man page and couldn't find any mention of
> special behavior of the "jobs" builtin.  But presumably careful reading
> of the documentation of "command", "builtin", and "jobs" would show
> which cases work in which way.

Nothing special.

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