On 9/21/19 1:37 PM, Robert Elz wrote: > Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 17:18:47 +0200 > From: Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> > Message-ID: <875zllu17s....@igel.home> > > | A job spec already starts with %. > > That's not what was meant.
It's the right answer, though. > > In, for example: > > jinx$ help -s wait > wait: wait [-fn] [id ...] > > the command name appears both before and after the ':', as if to > say "The usage for the wait command is "wait" optional 'f' and 'n' flags, > and some number of optional "id" args. The job spec, introduced by the `%', *is* the command. It's explained in the man page. Even a `%' by itself, without any job name or number, is a job spec. So `%' is not a command name per se -- the command that gets invoked is either `fg' or `bg'. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/