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Linux jobs command (list background processes)

The jobs Command in Linux lists processes that are running in the background. If a task number is provided the command will return information relevant only to the task in question.

The task number is provided when the process is placed in the background.

The most common options are:

  • -l Lists the PID of the background processes.
  • -r List only running Jobs
  • -s List only stopped Jobs

In this example, find is stopped. Since we use the -l option, jobs also provides the PID 27159 of the find program:

$ jobs -l <br></br>[1] + 27159 Stopped find/-iname? a* 2> /dev/null

The job number can be used as a parameter in the bg and fg commands, especially if there is more than one job in task management.

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