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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Background Job Post 302512535 by rdcwayx on Sunday 10th of April 2011 07:55:15 PM
Old 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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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)
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