Finding your processes

To find the job numbers of all the background jobs you are running, type:
```
        % jobs
```
The job numbers will be shown in square brackets ([]), followed by the notation ``Stopped'' (for suspended jobs) or ``Running'' (for jobs that are still executing).
To find out all the process ID numbers of processes you are running, type:
```
        % ps -gx
```
Here is an example of output from this command:
```
          PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
        12030 p5 S     0:01 -csh (csh)
        12068 p5 T     1:46 emacs foo
        12788 p5 R     0:00 ps -gx
```
The first column is the process ID. The second column tells what terminal is controlling it (in this case, ttyp5). Next comes the current status (S for sleeping, T for stopped, R for running). The next column tells how much time it has spent.

Next: Killing a process
See also: Controlling multiple processes
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John Shipman, john@nmt.edu

Last updated: 1995/12/04 19:39:34 UT
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