Job Control

Bash’s job control facilities:

• Running a foreground process: sleep 10

• Running a background process: sleep 10 &

• Suspending a foreground process: ^z

• Listing jobs: jobs(This command lists suspended and background jobs with their respective job numbers.)

• Resuming a suspended process in the foreground: fg N(where N is a job number taken from the job listing)

• Resuming a suspended process in the background: bg N(where N is a job number taken from the job listing)

• Pulling a background process to the foreground: fg N(where N is a job number taken from the job listing)

• Pushing a foreground process to the background:

  • Suspend the foreground process.

  • Resume a suspended process in the background.

• Terminating a job: kill %N(where N is a job number taken from the job listing)