Managing Processes

• There are Processes (managed by the kernel) and there are Jobs
• Jobs cant contain multiple processes
• Jobs also can be suspended and resumed at a later stage

Backgrounding Processes (bg)

• To send a command straight to the background ad a & at the end of the command
• ping -c 400 localhost > ping_results.txt &
• If you forgot you can also press Ctrl + Z to suspend it and then run bg to run it in the background

Jobs Control: jobs and fg

• jobs: Get list of jobs
• fg %<job-id> Bring the job to the foreground

Process Control: ps and kill

• ps lists jobs system wide, not just for the current shell as we get with jobs
• -e get all processes
• -f full format output
• -C only the the processes for a given command name
• kill <PID of the process> to terminate the process

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Relevant Note(s): Linux Basics