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How do I get a field in bash's job list using awk?

I wanted to write a function to retrieve a field from the list of background jobs in bash. For example to get a specific argument. Let's say I send vim to the background, so "jobs" displays this ...
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Get PID of a function executed in the background

#!/bin/bash function abc() # wait for some event to happen, can be terminated by other process { sleep 3333 } echo "PID: $$" abc & echo "PID: $$" I need to retrieve the pid of this function, ...
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Is it possible to customise the prompt to show the if there are any background jobs?

Is it possible to customise the bash prompt to show the if there are any background jobs? I find it easy to forget that there are background jobs. Say if the prompt was... $ Is there a way to ...
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any way to un-disown / re-attach an interactive process to the tty? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell? In bash is there an opposite of disown, that is, to re-attach a process I've accidentally ...
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How to get the pid of the last executed command in shell script?

I want to have a shell script like this: my-app & echo $my-app-pid But I do not know how the get the pid of the just executed command. I know I can just use the jobs -p my-app command to grep ...
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Basic job control: stop a job, add a job onto the stack, and `fg`

Job control is probably my favorite thing about Linux. I find myself, often, starting a computationally demanding process that basically renders a computer unusable for up to days at a time, and being ...
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Get pid of long running command executed via at

I would like to spawn a persistent netcat server. My command of choice is the following: echo "bash -c \"while [ 1 ]; do nc -l -p 1111 >> check; done\"" | at now I am wondering how I can get ...
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Switch back to path when resume job from background

Say I open ~/vim.txt, push that to background, then cd to another path. When I bring that job to foreground, is there an option to switch back to old path? I noticed it says pwd, so I assume it is ...