jobs - Display status of jobs in current session

jobs [ -ln ] [ job ... ]

Description

You can use jobs to display information about active jobs started by qsh. For each job, qsh displays:

• Job number in brackets ([ ]).
• Status (Running, Done, Terminated, and so on).
• Return value of the job in parenthesis () when the return value is greater than zero and the job status is Done.
• Command line for the job.

Options

-l

Display status for each process in the specified job.

-n

Display status only for those jobs whose status has changed but has not been reported yet.

Operands

Each job specifies an active job. The job can be specified as a:

• Number to refer to a process id.
• %number to refer to a job number.
• %string to refer to a job whose name begins with string.

  If job is not specified, qsh displays status for all active jobs.

Exit Status

• 0 when successful.
• >0 when unsuccessful.

Related information

• kill - Terminate or signal processes
• wait - Wait for process completion

1. Display status for job number 1: jobs %1
2. Display status for process id 16107: jobs 16107
3. Display status for a job running the ls utility: jobs %ls
4. Display status for all active jobs: jobs