Andreas Schwab wrote in
<87h6lueids....@igel.home>:
|On Nov 09 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote:
|
|> re='^\[([0-9]+)\]'
|> jobspecs=()
|> while IFS= read -r line; do
|> if [[ $line =~ $re ]]; then
|> jobspecs+=( "%${BASH_REMATCH[1]}" )
|> fi
|> done < <(jobs -l)
|
|That fails for multi-line commands that happen to contain matches for
|re.
|
|$ (sleep 100; printf $'\n[100]\n') &
Bummer. Same is true for my thing.
Seems to me bash(1) should quote the output of jobs -l.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
