Name
jobs
Synopsis
jobs [options] [jobIDs]
List all running or stopped jobs, or list those specified by jobIDs. For example, you can check whether a long compilation or text format is still running. Also useful before logging out. See the section Job Control in Job Control.
Options
- -l
List job IDs and process group IDs.
- -n
List only jobs whose status changed since last notification.
- -p
List process group IDs only.
- -r
List running jobs only.
- -s
List stopped jobs only.
- -x cmd
Replace each job ID found in cmd with the associated process ID and then execute cmd.
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