Re: % job spec not recognized

[Chet Ramey]

> In bash 3.0, just "%" by itself apparently no longer gets the current
> job.  For example:
> 
> $ cat
> 
> 
> [1]+  Stopped                 cat
> $ jobs
> [1]+  Stopped                 cat
> $ %
> bash: fg: %: no such job
> $ %1
> cat
> 
> I really miss this.  
> 
> Version 3.00.0(1)-release, gnu/linux (red hat 9).  I looked around for
> previous reports or patches, but didn't succeed.  Any help appreciated ...

You didn't look hard enough ;-).

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2004-08/msg00182.html

The null job was never documented as valid, and only worked by an
accident of implementation.  It was removed as a side effect of a
general tightening of the job control parsing code.

I did a small survey of shells with job control support, and decided that
I will explicitly enable it again in the next version, and document it.

Chet


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