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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: jobs broken in csh
Message-ID: <6007@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 16:16:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6007
Posted: Mon Jun 22 16:16:06 1987
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In article <7949@brl-adm.ARPA> williams@nrl-css.arpa writes:
>% jobs | cat
>	I get nothing.

That's because the "jobs" in the pipeline is a child of the original shell,
and the child does not have job control enabled, for semi-obvious reasons.