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jobs(1) General Commands Manual jobs(1) NAME jobs - Displays status of jobs in the current session SYNOPSIS jobs [-l|-p] job_id... [DIGITAL] jobs [-n] job_id... Note The C shell has a built-in version of the jobs command. If you are us- ing the C shell, and want to guarantee that you are using the command described here, you must specify the full path /usr/bin/jobs. See the csh(1) reference page for a description of the built-in command. STANDARDS Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry stan- dards as follows: jobs: XPG4, XPG4-UNIX Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about in- dustry standards and associated tags. OPTIONS Provides more information about each job listed. This information in- cludes the job number, current job, process group ID, state and the command that formed the job. Displays only the process IDs for the process group leaders of the selected jobs. [DIGITAL] Displays jobs that have stopped or exited since last notified. By default, the jobs utility displays the status of all stopped jobs, running background jobs and all jobs whose status has changed and has not been reported by the shell. OPERANDS Specifies the jobs for which the status is to be displayed. If no job_id operand is given, the status information for all jobs is dis- played. The format of job_id is described in the Jobs section of the ksh(1) reference page. DESCRIPTION The jobs utility displays the status of jobs that were started in the current shell environment. When jobs reports the termination status of a job, the shell removes its process ID from the list of those "known in the current shell exe- cution environment". See the Jobs section of the ksh(1) reference page. RESTRICTIONS The jobs utility does not work as expected when it is operating in its own utility execution environment because that environment has no ap- plicable jobs to manipulate. EXIT STATUS The following exit values are returned: Successful completion. An er- ror occurred. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables affect the execution of jobs: Pro- vides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization vari- ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value, over- rides the values of all the other internationalization variables. De- termines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multi- byte characters in arguments). Determines the locale used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard er- ror and informative messages written to standard output. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES. SEE ALSO Commands: bg(1), csh(1), fg(1), kill(1), ksh(1), sh(1p), wait(1) Standards: standards(5) jobs(1)