Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!gatech!mcnc!duke!ndd From: ndd@duke.cs.duke.edu (Ned Danieley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Ksh use (was Re: Should ``csh'' be part of ...) Message-ID: <11753@duke.cs.duke.edu> Date: 19 May 88 13:06:44 GMT References: <2599@usceast.UUCP> <2601@usceast.UUCP> <4095@mtgzz.UUCP> <11747@duke.cs.duke.edu> <8066@elsie.UUCP> Reply-To: ndd@duke.UUCP (Ned D. Danieley) Organization: Duke University, Durham NC Lines: 27 Posted: Thu May 19 09:06:44 1988 In article <8066@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: >> As long as we're talking about ksh, is there any way to do job >> control without typing fg (and bg)? In csh >> %2 >> brings the second stopped job into the foreground; as I understand it, >> in ksh I have to do >> fg %2 > >As someone who made the switch from csh to ksh a while back. . . > > alias %1='fg %1' ... >-- > Canada's program is to spaceflight as the carrier pigeon is to mail. > ado@ncifcrf.gov ADO is a trademark of Ampex. Oh... (slowly rising flush). That wasn't so hard, was it? Thanks. Ned Danieley (ndd@sunbar.mc.duke.edu) Basic Arrhythmia Laboratory Box 3140, Duke University Medical Center Durham, NC 27710 (919) 684-6807 or 684-6942