Hello. Oğuz wrote in <CAH7i3Lo1nTbGKax7=uc+6wtmosicpjr-7nzw+5ouaxnrrbf...@mail.gmail.com>: |On Thursday, November 9, 2023, Steffen Nurpmeso <stef...@sdaoden.eu> wrote: |> I mean some scripting on "jobs | wc -l" would do that, though. :( |> Maybe i should just write a function that builds the string |> necessary to do what i wanted with %* or "%1-2 %4" etc. |> Eh. Forget about it. | |Can't you abuse jobs -x somehow? Like this perhaps | | jobs -x printf '%s\n' %{1..100} | awk '!/%/{print "%"NR}'
Well i first thought "this is darn smart", but then realized this is at the level of that wc -l thing which is definetely the wrong thing to do. Sequences are also bash-only (though seq(1) is everywhere). But thanks. --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)