what does "bash:no job control in this shell” mean?

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I think it's related to the parent process creating new subprocess and does not have tty. Can anyone explain the detail under the hood? i.e. the related working model of bash, process creation, etc?

It may be a very broad topic so pointers to posts are also very appreciated. I've Googled for a while, all the results are about very specific case and none is about the story behind the scene. To provide more context, below is the shell script resulting the 'bash: no job control in this shell'.

#! /bin/bash

while [ 1 ]; do
    st=$(netstat -an |grep 7070 |grep LISTEN -o | uniq)
    if [ -z $st ]; then
        echo "need to start proxy @$(date)"
        bash -i -c "ssh -D 7070 -N user@my-ssh.example.com > /dev/null"
    else
        echo "proxy OK @$(date)"
    fi
    sleep 3
done

This line:

bash -i -c "ssh -D 7070 -N user@my-ssh.example.com > /dev/null"

is where "bash:no job control in this shell” come from.

linux bash
5 Answers

You may need to enable job control:

#! /bin/bash   
set -m
user_84715550

Faced this problem only because I've miscopied a previously executed command together with % prefix into zsh, like % echo this instead of echo this. The error was very unclear to such a stupid typo

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