Job
Updated: 06/30/2020 by Computer Hope
A job may refer to any of the following:
1. In general, a job is work or a task that's been assigned, is currently being worked on, or was completed. Today, a job is a paid position often completed by a human. However, as computers and robots become more sophisticated, computers are doing more jobs.
Examples of human computer-related jobs include administrator, engineer, programmer, and technical support.
2. With Linux, jobs is a command that lets you show running jobs. See our jobs command page for further information and examples on this command.
- Use the kill command to end a Linux job.
3. When referring to JCL or an IBM mainframe operating system, a job refers to many tasks, such as executing a program, copying data, etc.
4. When referring to a person, Jobs is short for Steve Jobs.
