Name

jobs

The built-in command jobs lists the jobs running in your current shell:

➜ jobs
[1]-  Running                 emacs myfile &
[2]+  Stopped                 wc -l bigfile

The integer on the left is the job number, and the plus sign identifies the default job affected by the fg (foreground) and bg (background) commands.

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