RE: Bash Shell and Running Background Jobs

[Chet Ramey]

> Thanks for the reply.  What I'm looking for is behavior similar to
> the korn shell.  If there are running background jobs and the user
> tries to exit the shell, they get a warning message that there are
> still running jobs, giving them the opportunity to kill the job(s) or
> continue.  If the user then proceeds to exit the shell, the jobs
> continue running. 

I could never reproduce this ksh behavior, but I finally figured out
that ksh93 does this only for login shells.  Non-login shells behave
as bash does.

If you want to emulate that behavior when login shells terminate, add
something similar to the following to ~/.bash_logout:

_JP=$(jobs -rp)
[ -n "$_JP" ] && {
        echo "You have running jobs"
        jobs -r
        echo -n "kill running jobs? [y/n] "
        read ans
        case "$ans" in
        y*|Y*)  kill $_JP 2>/dev/null ;;
        *)      ;;
        esac;
}

Chet

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