Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Checking job status with jobs

Occasionally, you may have multiple jobs running or suspended and need a quick update about the jobs' status. Using jobs, you can find out whether a job is running, stopped, or waiting for input (with tty, for example), as shown in Code Listing 9.5.

To check job status with jobs:

• jobs

  At the shell prompt, type jobs. You'll see a list of the current jobs (that is, processes that you've suspended or otherwise controlled) either running or stopped, as shown in Code Listing 9.5. Using the job numbers on the left, you can choose to run the jobs in the background or foreground, to resume them, or to kill the jobs, as described in the next few sections in this chapter.

Tip

Depending on your shell, you can often kill jobs ...