[Pdx-pm] solved: job control (still got a question)

[Randall Hansen]

First, thanks for everyone's help.  I have one nagging question
(immediately below) and then a brief explanation of what I was
solving.

At this point the only thing that confuses me is the output
from:
	$ perl -e "print `jobs`"

This does pass 'jobs' to the current shell *and* returns the data I
need[1], but it appears that perl is trying to 'eval' that data before
it passes it to 'print.'  If bash is passing that data into perl
somehow I should be able to inspect or intercept it (I'd think), but I
can't figure out how.  That's all curiosity, though, since I have a
solution that works.

As it turns out, Tom's earlier pipe suggestion did the trick (once I
remembered to use <STDIN> instead of @ARGV).  The final solution (so
to speak) was this:

    PROMPT_COMMAND="PS1=\$(jobs | ~/bin/prompt_me.pl)"

So now you know what I was doing in the first place: messing with my
bash prompt on a lazy Sunday afternoon :)  I want to display the
number of stopped jobs iff such jobs exist.  I know it's easy with
bash scripting, but I wanted to pound this particular nail with Perl
(ended up pounding with my head instead ...).

r

p.s. Thanks for all the cc's, too, but I am on the list.

-- notes --
1. I know this because the output is something like:
    Can't locate object method "Stopped" via package "man"
... when I have a 'man' invocation stopped.
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