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bash internal / process management / background jobs (1)

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bash

This demonstrates managing background processes in Bash, including running, listing, foregrounding, pausing, resuming, and killing jobs.

sleep 30 &
# List background jobs
jobs # => [1]+  Running                 sleep 30 &
# Bring the background job to the foreground
fg
# Ctrl-C to kill the process, or Ctrl-Z to pause it
# Resume a background process after it has been paused with Ctrl-Z
bg
# Kill job number 2
kill %2
# %1, %2, etc. can be used for fg and bg as well

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