fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/jobs.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 414d9a1eb1 Reference more non-fish shell builtins that have relevant differences
When writing scripts for other shells, it can be confusing and annoying
that our `man` function shadows other manual pages, for example `exec(1p)`
from [Linux man-pages]. I almost never want to see the fish variant for such
contended cases (which obviuosly don't include fish-specific commands like
`string`, only widely-known shell builtins).

For the contented cases like `exec`, the POSIX documentation is more
substantial and useful, since it describes a (sub)set of languages widely
used for scripting.

Because of this I think we should stop overriding the system's man pages.
Nowadays we offer `exec -h` as intuitive way to show the documentation for
the fish-specific command (note that `help` is not a good replacement because
it uses a web browser).

Looking through the contended commands, it seems like for most of them,
the fish version is not substantially different from the system version.
A notable exception is `read` but I don't think it's a very important one.

So I think we should can sacrifice a bit of the native fish-scripting
experience in exchange for playing nicer with other shells. I think the
latter is more important because scripting is not our focus, the way I see it.
So maybe put our manpath at the end.

In lieu of that, let's at least have `exec.rst` reference the system variant.

[Linux man-pages]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

Closes #10376
2024-04-20 13:34:08 +02:00

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.. _cmd-jobs:
jobs - print currently running jobs
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Synopsis
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.. synopsis::
jobs [OPTIONS] [PID | %JOBID]
Description
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.. only:: builder_man
NOTE: This page documents the fish builtin ``jobs``.
To see the documentation on any non-fish versions, use ``command man jobs``.
``jobs`` prints a list of the currently running :ref:`jobs <syntax-job-control>` and their status.
``jobs`` accepts the following options:
**-c** or **--command**
Prints the command name for each process in jobs.
**-g** or **--group**
Only prints the group ID of each job.
**-l** or **--last**
Prints only the last job to be started.
**-p** or **--pid**
Prints the process ID for each process in all jobs.
**-q** or **--query**
Prints no output for evaluation of jobs by exit status only. For compatibility with old fish versions this is also **--quiet** (but this is deprecated).
**-h** or **--help**
Displays help about using this command.
On systems that support this feature, jobs will print the CPU usage of each job since the last command was executed. The CPU usage is expressed as a percentage of full CPU activity. Note that on multiprocessor systems, the total activity may be more than 100\%.
Arguments of the form *PID* or *%JOBID* restrict the output to jobs with the selected process identifiers or job numbers respectively.
If the output of ``jobs`` is redirected or if it is part of a command substitution, the column header that is usually printed is omitted, making it easier to parse.
The exit status of ``jobs`` is ``0`` if there are running background jobs and ``1`` otherwise.
Example
-------
``jobs`` outputs a summary of the current jobs, such as two long-running tasks in this example:
.. code-block:: none
Job Group State Command
2 26012 running nc -l 55232 < /dev/random &
1 26011 running python tests/test_11.py &