Re: Idea: jobs(1) -i to print only :%ID:s

[Andreas Schwab]

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') &

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