Linux jobs command

Linux jobs command

• About jobs
• jobs syntax
• jobs examples
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About jobs

Lists the status of all running jobs.
 
jobs syntax

                 jobs [-lnprs] [JOBSPEC ...]
 
Options

JOBSPEC                    Job name or number.
-l                 Lists process IDs in addition to the normal information.
-n                List only processes that have changed status since the last 
                   notification.
-p                Lists process IDs only.
-r                 Restrict output to running jobs.
-s                 Restrict output to stopped jobs.

jobs examples
                    jobs         

Displays all running jobs. Output is similar to the following:

              [1] + Stopped (user) top
 
Here, the job number 1 has been suspended by the user, and the process in this case is the top utility.

              jobs -l

When supplied the -l option, jobs displays process IDs in addition to job number, similar to the following output:

[3] 16882 Running ./chsearchproc (wd: ~/public_html/cgi-bin/chsearch) 

Related commands

at             — Schedule a command to be run at a certain time.
csh           — The C shell command interpreter.
kill            — Send a signal to a process, affecting its behavior or killing it.
ksh           — The Korn shell command interpreter.
ps             — Report the status of a process or processes.
sh — The Bourne shell command interpreter.