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I'd like to write a small shell script that takes the output of the `jobs` command, which looks like so:
[1] - suspended vim
[2] + suspended less foo.txt
And have it return a string like:
(1:vim 2:less foo.txt)
So I can add that to my PROMPT.
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mheap commented Aug 28, 2013 

echo "("`jobs | sed -r 's/ .*suspended (\(signal\))?//' | tr -s ' ' | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/\[\([^]]*\)\]/\1:/g'`")"

There's a trailing space that I'm working on removing

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