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8.8. 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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