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Please fix % job control command


From: Sanders, Kevin
Subject: Please fix % job control command
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:21:32 -0500

I'm not sure who is maintaining this code now, but I did find a
reference in the archives to this.

The issue is that in version 3.0 of bash, the "%" command when
given by itself is not a synonym for "%+".  This has been the
behavior of versions of bash prior to 3.0 and is not even unique
to bash - the job control commands were originally borrowed from
the csh shell.  The man page for csh indicates that "%" by itself
is a synonym for "%+".

The maintainer of the code previously stated that the old behavior
was an accident of the implementation but that it's all better now.

Accident or not, this was documented behavior in csh from which
the job control for bash was derived.  And even if this were not
so, such a visible feature should not be altered because users
depend upon it.

Frankly I'm surprised that more people have not been annoyed by
this problem - there have been two bug reports filed against
Red Hat Beta 4 for it (and summarily rejected as NOTABUG), and
a small amount of discussion here back in August, but there's
got to be thousands of people who use this command.  I suspect
that we won't hear from too many folks on this until it hits
the major distributions, and then there will be a flood of
complaints.

Please fix it before it's too late!

-- 
Kevin Sanders




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