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| Chapter 4 The Bourne Shell and Korn Shell |

## jobs

    jobs [options] [jobIDs]

List all running or stopped jobs, or list those specified by `jobIDs`. For example, you can check whether a long compilation or text format is still running. Also useful before logging out. See "Job Control."

### Options

-l

  List job IDs and process group IDs.

-n

  List only jobs whose status changed since last notification. Korn shell only.

-p

  List process group IDs only.

-x cmd

  Replace each job ID found in `cmd` with the associated process ID and then execute `cmd`. Not valid for Korn shell.

Reference: integer |  | Reference: kill