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Job Control
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12.8 Job Control in a Nutshell

Unless otherwise noted, these commands apply only to the C shell, Korn shell, and bash :

  • command  & (1.26 , 12.1 ) : Run command in the background. You can continue to execute jobs in the foreground. All shells.

  • CTRL-c (38.9 ) : Kill the current foreground job by sending the INTR signal (38.8 ) . All shells.

  • CTRL-z (12.1 , 12.4 ) : Suspend the current foreground job by sending the TSTP signal (38.8 ) .

  • Suspend a shell with the suspend command (22.22 ) .

  • Suspend a background job with the stop command or an alias that does the same thing (12.5 ) .

  • bg % num (12.1 ) : Let a stopped job (by job number num ) continue in the background.

  • fg % num (12.1 ) : Put a background job or a stopped job (by job number num ) into the foreground.

  • kill % num (12.1 ) : Kill an arbitrary background job (by job number num ).

  • kill  pid (38.10 ) : Kill an arbitrary job (by process ID number num ). All shells.

  • jobs (12.1 ) : List background and stopped jobs and their job numbers.

  • set notify (12.6 ) : Immediate job-state change notices.

  • stty tostop (12.7 ) : Automatically stop background processes if they try writing to the screen.

- ML


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