Using csh & tcsh

Job Control

Job control allows you to suspend or terminate jobs, or move jobs between the foreground and background. Job control commands are shown below. When used, %j indicates the job of interest.

Command	Description
CTRL-Z	Stop the foreground job
CTRL-C	Interrupt (terminate) foreground job
fg %j	Bring stopped or background job to foreground
bg %j	Move stopped job to background
kill %j	Kill (terminate) stopped or background job
stop %j	Stop background job
suspend	Suspend current shell (if non-login shell)
jobs	Display current job list

The job specifier %j has the following forms.

Specifier	Description
%	Current job (%+ and %% are synonyms for %)
%-	Previous job
%n	Job number n
%str	Job whose command line begins with str
%?str	Job whose command line contains str (if shell says No match, use %\?str)

The fg and bg commands have the shorthand forms listed below.

Specifier	Description
%j	Equivalent to fg %j
fg or %	Equivalent to fg %
%j&	Equivalent to bg %j
bg or %&	Equivalent to bg %

If the notify shell variable is set, the shell notifies you immediately when background jobs finish. Otherwise, notification occurs when the next prompt is printed.

Use stty to specify whether or not background jobs can write to your terminal, as shown below:

stty tostop       Force background jobs to stop when ready to write to terminal
stty -tostop      Allow background jobs to write to terminal