9. Running Scripts and Programs

In This Chapter

Running a Command

Scheduling Onetime Jobs with at

Scheduling Regularly Occurring Jobs with cron

Suspending Jobs

Checking Job Status with jobs

Running Jobs in the Background with bg

Running Jobs in the Foreground with fg

Controlling Job Priority with nice

Timing Jobs with time

Finding Out What Processes Are Running with ps

Deleting Processes with kill

Throughout this book, you’ve been running scripts and programs by typing commands and pressing Image. The commands zoom along to the Unix or Linux system, which responds by obediently doing whatever the command or script dictates. In doing this, you run ...

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