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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: C-shell idiosyncracy ??
Message-ID: <10650011@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 21:45:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 10 21:45:34 1987
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> It seems that I can redirect the output of a C-shell command
> to a file, but I cannot pipe it to some other command. Logically,
> this should not have happened. Anyway, the following happens
> for C-shell as well as for korn-shell.
> 
> {samsun} jobs
> [1]  + Stopped		emacs foo
> {samsun} jobs > bar
> {samsun} cat bar
> [1]  + Stopped		emacs foo
> {samsun} jobs | more
> {samsun}
> 
> So, for some reasons I just cannot pipe the output of "jobs".
> I am just wondering how was this bug (feature !) implemented. ?

This works in HP-UX's /bin/csh and in its /bin/ksh, i.e.,
"jobs | more" prints:

    [1]  + Stopped		emacs foo

Dave Decot
hpda!decot