jobs(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   jobs(1)

NAME

       jobs - Displays status of jobs in the current session

SYNOPSIS

       jobs [-l  | -p] job_id...

       [Tru64 UNIX]   jobs [-n] job_id...

									  Note

       The C shell has a built-in version of the jobs command.	If you are using 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 standards as follows:

       jobs:  XCU5.0

       Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.

OPTIONS

       Provides more information about each job listed. This information includes 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.  [Tru64 UNIX]  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
       applicable jobs to manipulate.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned: Successful completion.  An error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables affect the execution of jobs: Provides 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,
       overrides  the  values of all the other internationalization variables.	Determines the locale for the interpretation of sequences of bytes
       of text data as characters (for example, single-byte as opposed to multibyte characters in  arguments).	 Determines  the  locale  used	to
       affect  the  format  and  contents  of  diagnostic  messages written to standard error 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)

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