Linux jobs Command: List Background Processes
The jobs command in Linux lists the processes that are running in the background. If a job number is provided, the command will return the relevant information only for that specific job.
The job number is provided when the process is placed in the background.
The most frequent options are:
- -l Lists the PID of the background processes.
- -r Lists only the running jobs
- -s Lists only the stopped jobs
In this example, find is stopped. As we used the -l option, jobs also reports the PID 27159 of the find program:
$ jobs -l[1]+ 27159 Stopped find / -iname ?a* 2> /dev/nullThe job number can be used as a parameter in the bg and fg commands, especially if there is more than one job in job control.
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