$jobstates  –  Mapping of job number to state

$jobstates maps job numbers to job state. Each value is of the form job-state:mark:pid=state....

Links

• The Z Shell manual
• The Z shell manual on jobs and signals

Examples

Run job and print job states

1 2	ping -c 10 1.1.1.1 >/dev/null & ~ typeset jobstates

Output:

1 2	[1] 288088 jobstates=( [1]='running:+:288088=running' )