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NAME

jobs - display status of jobs

SYNOPSIS

jobs [ options ] [job ...]

DESCRIPTION

jobs displays information about specified jobs that were started by the current shell environment on standard output. The information contains the job number enclosed in [...], the status, and the command line that started the job.

If job is omitted, jobs displays the status of all stopped jobs, background jobs, and all jobs whose status has changed since last reported by the shell.

When jobs reports the termination status of a job, the shell removes the jobs from the list of known jobs in the current shell environment.

Each job can be specified as one of the following:
number
number refers to a process id.
-number
number refers to a process group id.
%number
number refer to a job number.
%string
Refers to a job whose name begins with string.
%?string
Refers to a job whose name contains string.
%+ or %%
Refers to the current job.
%-
Refers to the previous job.

OPTIONS

-l
jobs displays process id's after the job number in addition to the usual information
-n
Only the jobs whose status has changed since the last prompt is displayed.
-p
The process group leader id's for the specified jobs are displayed.

EXIT STATUS

0
The information for each job is written to standard output.
>0
One or more jobs does not exist.

SEE ALSO

wait(1), ps(1), fg(1), bg(1)

IMPLEMENTATION

version
jobs (AT&T Research) 2000-04-02
author
David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
copyright
Copyright © 1982-2008 AT&T Intellectual Property
license
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt