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Korn Shell: Unix and Linux Programming Manual, Third Edition, The
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Korn Shell: Unix and Linux Programming Manual, Third Edition, The

by Anatole Olczak
January 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
7h 22m
English
Pearson Business
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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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