04-10-2011
The job is not only for one command, it can be shell scripting, which include thousands of commands, after you run it, it will generate different PIDs.
So which PID you need forground then?
To man jobs maybe give you full idea on the background and foreground jobs.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
ecaccess-job-get
ECACCESS-JOB-GET(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation ECACCESS-JOB-GET(1p)
NAME
ecaccess-job-get - Download a Job Output/Input/Error File
SYNOPSIS
ecaccess-job-get -version|-help|-manual
ecaccess-job-get [-debug] [-input|-error] [-encrypt] [-binary] [-bufsize length] job-id local-target-file
DESCRIPTION
Allow downloading the Job Output/Input/Error Files with identifier job-id.
The file is downloaded localy in the local-target-file.
ARGUMENTS
job-id The identifier of the ECaccess Job to retrieve.
local-target-file
The name of the Local Target File.
OPTIONS
-input By default the Job Output File is downloaded. Using this option allow downloading the Job Input File instead.
-error By default the Job Output File is downloaded. Using this option allow downloading the Job Error File instead.
-encrypt
By default files are downloaded through the plain text channel (http). Using this option will force the download to occurs through
the SSL secure channel (https).
-binary By default files are downloaded as text files. This option will download files as binary files (decode_base64 required). Please
note that text files can also be downloaded in binary mode but text mode is faster. You should use this option if your job output
is containing non-text characters.
-bufsize length
Specify the length of the buffer (in bytes) which is used to download the file. The larger the buffer the smaller the number of
http/s requests. By default a buffer of 524288 bytes(512KB) is used.
-version
Display version number and exits.
-help Print a brief help message and exits.
-manual Prints the manual page and exits.
-debug Display the SOAP messages exchanged.
EXAMPLES
ecaccess-job-get 124356 ./ecaccess-job-124356.output
Download the output of the ECaccess Job 124356 in the local ecaccess-job-124356.output file.
SEE ALSO
ecaccess-job-delete, ecaccess-job-list, ecaccess-job-restart, ecaccess-job-submit and ecaccess.
perl v5.14.2 2012-04-16 ECACCESS-JOB-GET(1p)