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From: davisd@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Dug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Funny csh output?
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Date: 28 Feb 90 16:00:01 GMT
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In article <12251@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
#In article <6662@cps3xx.UUCP> davisd@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (Dug) writes:
#>% jobs | wc
#>       0       0       0
#
#There are no suspended jobs in the shell that's running the pipeline
#(it's a subprocess of the one that printed the prompt).

But it that's true then why can I redirect it to a file and have my
stopped jobs show up there?  (i.e.  jobs > test  will result in "test"
having the correct output of jobs)

-Dug