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 shell provides the following commands for job control. For more information on these commands, see Section 8.9.
- 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).
- %-
Previous job.
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