5.6 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 "Built-in C Shell Commands," later in this chapter.

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 a foreground job.

Many job-control commands take a 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 above)

%+

Current job (same as above)

%-

Previous job