jobs - print currently running jobs¶
Synopsis¶
jobs [OPTIONS] [PID | %JOBID]
Description¶
jobs
prints a list of the currently running jobs and their status.
jobs
accepts the following options:
- -c or --command
Prints the command name for each process in jobs.
- -g or --group
Only prints the group ID of each job.
- -l or --last
Prints only the last job to be started.
- -p or --pid
Prints the process ID for each process in all jobs.
- -q or --query
Prints no output for evaluation of jobs by exit status only. For compatibility with old fish versions this is also --quiet (but this is deprecated).
- -h or --help
Displays help about using this command.
On systems that support this feature, jobs will print the CPU usage of each job since the last command was executed. The CPU usage is expressed as a percentage of full CPU activity. Note that on multiprocessor systems, the total activity may be more than 100%.
Arguments of the form PID or %JOBID restrict the output to jobs with the selected process identifiers or job numbers respectively.
If the output of jobs
is redirected or if it is part of a command substitution, the column header that is usually printed is omitted, making it easier to parse.
The exit status of jobs
is 0
if there are running background jobs and 1
otherwise.
Example¶
jobs
outputs a summary of the current jobs, such as two long-running tasks in this example:
Job Group State Command
2 26012 running nc -l 55232 < /dev/random &
1 26011 running python tests/test_11.py &