jobs, bg, fg, stop, and notify are shell built-in commands.
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Tip
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If you are running a job and wish to do something else you may press <Ctrl-z> which sends a STOP signal to the current job. |
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Tip
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You can run a command line in background just adding a & at the end of the line, example: sleep 10 && echo Hello World &
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jobs displays the status of the jobs that were started in the current shell environment
fg [%job] brings the current or specified jobs into the foreground, continuing them if they were stopped.
bg [%job] puts the current or specified jobs into the background, continuing them if they were stopped.
stop %job stops the current or specified jobs that are executing in the background.
notify [%job] causes the shell to notify the user asynchronously when the status of the current or specified jobs change.
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Warning
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notify is not available on ksh, and sh.
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