Job Control

Job control lets you place foreground jobs in the background, bring background jobs to the foreground, or suspend (temporarily stop) running jobs. The C shell provides the following commands for job control. For more information on these commands, see "Built-in csh and tcsh Commands".

• bg
• Put a job in the background.
• fg
• Put a job in the foreground.
• jobs
• List active jobs.
• kill
• Terminate a job.
• notify
• Notify when a background job finishes.
• stop
• Suspend a background job.
• Ctrl-Z
• Suspend the foreground job.

Many job control commands take jobID as an argument. This argument can be specified as follows:

• %n
• Job number n.
• %s
• Job whose command line starts with string s.
• %?s
• Job whose command line contains string s.
• %%
• Current job.
• %
• Current job (same as preceding).
• %+
• Current job (same as preceding).
• %-
• Previous job.