Checking Job Status with jobs

Occasionally, you may have multiple jobs running or suspended and need a quick update about the jobs’ status. Using jobs, you can find out whether a job is running, stopped, or waiting for input, as shown in Code Listing 9.6.

Code Listing 9.6. Viewing jobs lets you know which jobs you have suspended and their status.
[ejr@hobbes ejr]$ jobs
[1]- Running   ftp calvin.raycomm.com &
[2]+ Stopped   (tty input)    telnet
[3] Stopped    (signal)       lynx
 → http://www.raycomm.com/
[ejr@hobbes ejr]$

To Check Job Status with jobs:

  • jobs

    At the shell prompt, type jobs. You’ll see a list of the current jobs(that is, processes that you’ve suspended or otherwise controlled) either running or stopped, as shown in Code Listing 9.6. Using the ...

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