Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20231109181645.bocyg%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: |Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in | <20231109181107.bj0wl%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: ||Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in || <20231109011212.tc9hj%stef...@sdaoden.eu>: || ... ||Something like this that would be, adding JLIST_SPEC_ONLY and ||jobs(1) -j. Just in case of interest. | |I mean some scripting on "jobs | wc -l" would do that, though. :(
Nah, that would be wrong. |Maybe i should just write a function that builds the string |necessary to do what i wanted with %* or "%1-2 %4" etc. So i did that (what a mess -- does anyone know how i can create an awk regular expression where parts of the expression is a variable that should be expanded? ugh! what do i know??): j() { local j= a=${AWK:-awk} [ $# -gt 0 ] && j='&& $2 !~ /(^| )('$(echo "$@" | tr ' ' '|')')( |$)/' j=$(jobs -l | $a -F '[][]' '/^[[]/'"$j"'{print "%" $2}{next}') echo $j } |Eh. Forget about it. Sorry for the noise. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)