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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



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