Job Control
Job control is a process manipulation feature found in the Korn shell. It allows programs to be stopped and restarted, moved between the foreground and background, their processing status to be displayed, and more. To enable job control, the monitor option must be enabled. By default, this is enabled on systems that support the job control feature. When a program is run in the background, a job number and process id are returned.
Job Control Commands
| bg | put current stopped job in the background |
| bg %n | put stopped job n in the background |
| fg | move current background job into the foreground |
| fg %n | move background job n into the foreground |
| jobs | display status of all jobs |
| jobs –l | display status of all jobs along with process ids |
| jobs –p ... |
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