8.8. Job Control
Job control lets you place foreground jobs in the background, bring background jobs to the foreground, or suspend (temporarily stop) running jobs. The C shell provides the following commands for job control. For more information on these commands, see Section 8.9, "Built-in csh and tcsh Commands".
- bg
Put a job in the background.
- fg
Put a job in the foreground.
- jobs
List active jobs.
- kill
Terminate a job.
- notify
Notify when a background job finishes.
- stop
Suspend a background job.
- Ctrl-Z
Suspend the foreground job.
Many job control commands take jobID as an argument. This argument can be specified as follows:
- %n
Job number n.
- %s
Job whose command line starts with string s.
- %?s
Job whose command line contains string s.
- %%
Current job.
- %
Current job (same as preceding).
- %+
Current job (same as preceding).
- %-
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