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jobs(1)
NAME
  jobs - Displays status of jobs in the current session

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

  [DIGITAL]

  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:	 XPG4, XPG4-UNIX

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

OPTIONS
  -l  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.

  -p  Displays only the process IDs for the process group leaders of the
      selected jobs.

  -n  [DIGITAL]	 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
  job_id
      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
      displayed.  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 execution
  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:

  0   Successful completion.

  >0  An error occurred.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  The following environment variables affect the execution of jobs:

  LANG
      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
      variables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of
      the variables had been defined.

  LC_ALL
      If set to a non-empty string value, overrides the values of all the
      other internationalization variables.

  LC_CTYPE
      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).

  LC_MESSAGES
      Determines the locale used to affect the format and contents of
      diagnostic messages written to standard error and informative messages
      written to standard output.

  NLSPATH
      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)