UnixCommands/jobs

The shell allows you to stop or temporarily suspend a process, send a process to background, and bring a process from background to foreground. In this context, processes are called ``jobs''.


 * To see how many jobs there are, type jobs. Here the jobs are identified by their job number, not by their PID.
 * To stop a process running in foreground, press  (it won't always work).
 * To suspend a process running in foreground, press  (ditto).
 * To send a suspended process into background, type bg <%job> (it becomes a job).
 * To bring a job to foreground, type fg <%job>. To bring to foreground the last job sent to background, simply type fg.
 * To kill a job, type kill <%job> where may be 1, 2, 3,...