October 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1040 pages
22h 50m
English
Job control is a powerful feature of the TC shell that allows you to run programs, called jobs, in the background or foreground. Normally, a command typed at the command line is running in the foreground and will continue until it has finished. If you have a windowing program, job control may not be necessary because you can simply open another window to start a new task. On the other hand, with a single terminal, job control is a very useful feature. For a list of job commands, see Table 13.12.
| Command | Meaning |
|---|---|
| jobs | Lists all the jobs running. |
| ^Z (Ctrl-Z) | Stops (suspends) the job; the prompt appears on the screen. |
| bg | Starts running the stopped job in the background. |
| fg | Brings a background job ... |