Package: dash Version: 0.5.12-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I found that 'jobs' in dash is silent when stdout is a pipe: # dash -c 'sleep 1&sleep 1&jobs|wc -l' 0 afaics, this is not documented behaviour, and other utilities (kill, alias) seem to work fine. bash does allow the output of jobs to be parsed: # bash -c 'sleep 1&sleep 1&jobs|wc -l' 2 I think the bash behaviour is more useful for shell programming, and probably correct, as the sus does not seem to indicate that jobs should have no output in this case. -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 6.6.15-amd64 (SMP w/28 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 5.7-0.5~deb12u1 ii dpkg 1.21.22 ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4 dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
