Re: (bash) How (really!) does the "current job" get determined?

In article <vdvi9o$1imug$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
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In contrast to '$!' that you get and work
with there's no (no easy?) way to obtain the job number that the
shell assigns!

I showed a method in an earlier post; it consists of piping the output of
"jobs -l" into an AWK script (that matches on $!).  It isn't pretty, but it
works.

And (for concerning your question below) you have
alway 'wait' available, for both, PIDs or job numbers (at least
in Kornshell; don't know about Bash or what POSIX says about it).

What annoys me is that (in bash), most, but not all, of the job control
related commands take either a pid or a job number.  To be clear, what
annoys me is that they don't *all* do.  In particular, "fg" only takes a
job number.  "disown" takes either, which is a very good thing.  Wish they
all did.

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