BASH job control: fg, bg, jobs, and Ctrl-Z

Posted by slippery on Aug 11, 2007 12:22 AM CST
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The BASH shell has a feature called job control that allows you to run and manage multiple processes from a single interactive prompt. In the age of serial connected dumb terminals, this was a killer feature. In the age of multi-homed multi-core Macs, not so killer, but there are certain situations where it can still be useful.

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