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| author | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-09-04 21:48:33 +0000 |
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| committer | jilles <jilles@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-09-04 21:48:33 +0000 |
| commit | 714c76939dde60292a6712472b3b85c53292e3c1 (patch) | |
| tree | a0860d129718a6d0d794db98ff77b1da186b38d8 /bin/sh/sh.1 | |
| parent | 9099058799f5cd600b4cccdc36f17fe567fbee2b (diff) | |
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sh: Allow enabling job control without a tty in non-interactive mode.
If no tty is available, 'set -m' is still useful to put jobs in their own
process groups.
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/sh/sh.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/sh/sh.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sh/sh.1 b/bin/sh/sh.1 index 1c3f8fb..4679d45 100644 --- a/bin/sh/sh.1 +++ b/bin/sh/sh.1 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" from: @(#)sh.1 8.6 (Berkeley) 5/4/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 26, 2014 +.Dd September 4, 2014 .Dt SH 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -259,6 +259,12 @@ from input when in interactive mode. Force the shell to behave interactively. .It Fl m Li monitor Turn on job control (set automatically when interactive). +A new process group is created for each pipeline (called a job). +It is possible to suspend jobs or to have them run in the foreground or +in the background. +In a non-interactive shell, +this option can be set even if no terminal is available +and is useful to place processes in separate process groups. .It Fl n Li noexec If not interactive, read commands but do not execute them. |
