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From: schuetz@iraul1.ira.uka.de (Elmar Schuetz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Problem piping "jobs"
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Date: 7 Dec 88 10:44:26 GMT
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Hello to the wizards in this group.

I want to "kill -9" the latest submitted job in a csh-environment.
I mean the job with the highest number. Note, this is not always "%+".

Therefore I tried to pipe "jobs" to "tail" and "awk" or "wc -l".

The problem: "jobs" does not result anything if piped. (Yes, there are jobs ...)
	Just try: jobs
	and	: jobs | cat
The last is always empty (under Ultrix 2.4 and SunOS 3.5).

If I could kill the job with the highest number another way I wouldn't care
about "jobs".

Any hints are appreciated.

Best regards, Elmar


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