[adamk]

hi,

just running some processes in the background using "&" and when they were done, they had "+" and "-" signs. i didn't do anything different when executing the processes (save the different file names). anybody know what those mean. sometimes there is no sign next to them



[3] + Done shorten -x ph030226d2_03_Ghost.txt
[2] - Done shorten -x ph030226d2_02_Stash.txt
[1] + Done shorten -x ph030226d2_01_Maze.txt
187 19:57:10 cactus:/var/tmp/adam adam%

[dudesteve]

doing a 'man jobs' brings up the tcsh man page, which states among other things:

The shell maintains a notion of the current and previous
jobs. In output pertaining to jobs, the current job is
marked with a `+' and the previous job with a `-'. The
abbreviations `%+', `%', and (by analogy with the syntax
of the history mechanism) `%%' all refer to the current
job, and `%-' refers to the previous job.


while this is the tcsh man page, it applies to most, if not all, other standard shells, too. to be sure, check your shell.