Re: Question about job control in non-interactive shells

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

Michael Welsh Duggan wrote:

> I am trying to determine why:
>
>   dash -c "sleep 5 & kill %1"
>
> results in:
>
>   dash: 1: kill: No such process

You are probably looking for the -m option.

Thanks for writing, and hope that helps,
Jonathan
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