Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!andrewt
From: andrewt@watnow.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Stuff running in subshells can be annoying
Message-ID: <ANDREWT.90Jan8091138@watnow.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 90 14:11:38 GMT
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I have a simple function:

function restart ()
  {
    eval `jobs | fgprg $1`
  }

which used to work in bash 1.03.  It seems now that stuff in `` or $()
gets run in a subshell in 1.04 where there aren't really any jobs.  Is
this fixable?

Am I sadly out to lunch on this diagnosis? :-)

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Andrew Thomas
andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu	Systems Design Eng.	University of Waterloo
"If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus