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Introduction

Manage interactive jobs in Hilbish via Lua.

Jobs are the name of background tasks/commands. A job can be started via interactive usage or with the functions defined below for use in external runners.

Functions

add(cmdstr, args, execPath)

Adds a new job to the job table. Note that this does not immediately run it.

all() -> table<Job>

Returns a table of all job objects.

disown(id)

Disowns a job. This deletes it from the job table.

get(id) -> Job

Get a job object via its ID.

last() -> Job

Returns the last added job from the table.

Types

Job

The Job type describes a Hilbish job.

Properties

• cmd: The user entered command string for the job.
• running: Whether the job is running or not.
• id: The ID of the job in the job table
• pid: The Process ID
• exitCode: The last exit code of the job.
• stdout: The standard output of the job. This just means the normal logs of the process.
• stderr: The standard error stream of the process. This (usually) includes error messages of the job.

Methods

background()

Puts a job in the background. This acts the same as initially running a job.

foreground()

Puts a job in the foreground. This will cause it to run like it was executed normally and wait for it to complete.

start()

Starts running the job.

stop()

Stops the job from running.