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The jobs command will list the running, stopped, foreground and background jobs or task running in the current session.

Syntax

jobs [options]

The options are:

• -l
Report the process group ID and working directory of the jobs.
• -n
Display only jobs that have stopped or exited since last notified.
• -p
Displays only the process IDs for the process group leaders of the selected jobs.
run some jobs to see it in action:

xterm &

xterm &

Now run

jobs

This could be the output.

[1]-  Running                 xterm &
[2]+  Running                 xterm &