4 examples for jobs
# If you really want to get the list that another tip promised but did not deliver, and you have already installed the package "autogen", then use the following command chain to get a comma-separated list of the job names. jobs -l | awk '{print $4}' | columns -S,
# Print a comma-separated list of background jobs echo ${$(echo `jobs | cut -d' ' -f6`)/[[:space:]]/,}