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predict_output medium Apply jobs-output 2 points

Question 29. CSCD240-E1-B

./beacon &. What exact line does jobs print?

Work the drill

Answer on paper or in a terminal before revealing the ideal answer.

Ideal answer
[1]+ Running ./beacon &

Misconception bank

Each row below is a plausible wrong answer, the thinking that produces it, and the remedy that corrects the misconception. These are the foundation of the multiple-choice framing and the targeted feedback a student receives after answering.

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Misconception. Expects silent; jobs prints the table.
Remedy. Demo the one-job scenario.
PID beacon
Misconception. Confuses jobs with ps output format.
Remedy. jobs uses [N], ps uses PIDs.

Authority mappings

Hover any chip for the mapping justification; click to open the authority record.

DCWF tasks: T0501
KU outcomes: CD-OSC-O1
NCAE errors: SSH Login / failure: Failed to connect to host: IPSSH Login / partial: The following users failed t.SSH Login / partial: The following users failed t.

Course-artifact links

Lectures

  • CSCD240-S26-L08. Pipes, filters, grep, sort, uniq, wc, tar

Lab questions

  • CSCD240-S26-LAB6: Run a long command with &. Use jobs, fg, bg.