Re: jobs built-in command and PROMPT_COMMAND

[Jesse Hathaway]

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:22 AM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> I think you're looking for this:
>
>   checkjobs
>       If set, bash lists the status of any stopped and running
>       jobs  before  exiting an interactive shell.  If any jobs
>       are running, this causes the exit to be deferred until a
>       second  exit is attempted without an intervening command
>       (see JOB CONTROL above).  The shell always postpones ex‐
>       iting if any jobs are stopped.

This doesn't seem to work for me, what am I doing wrong?

  $ INPUTRC=/dev/null bash --norc
  bash-5.1$ shopt -s checkjobs
  bash-5.1$ sleep 30 &
  [1] 461671
  bash-5.1$ jobs
  [1]+  Running                 sleep 30 &
  bash-5.1$ exit
  exit