On 2010-04-05 22:22, Matthew Moore wrote:
On Monday April 5 2010 7:59:59 pm Ron Johnson wrote:On 2010-04-05 16:42, Thilo Six wrote:but still it's unix style to use the right tool for the right task.You're correct: bash is the right tool for the job.Heresy! zsh is *always* the right tool for the job. As a corollary, if zsh is not the right tool for the job, then it is not, in fact, a job.
Linux (and Unix, for that matter) does not have the concept of the "job"Business-oriented operating systems (like OpenVMS, MVS/OS, OS/400 and other legacy systems) do, but any operating system without a batch queue (which is, naturally, to where you submit jobs) can not have "jobs".
(No, cron does *not* count. It's a piss-poor imitation.) -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower