My terminal workflow usually involves multiple windows and tabs with a job running in each. Lately though I’ve been trying to use the capabilities that Bash provides to manage jobs and run them in the background.
Here are some useful commands I’ve found.
| Command |
What It Does |
| ctrl-z |
Suspend the current job |
| jobs |
List the current jobs |
| fg %[number] |
Resume a job in the foreground |
| bg %[number] |
Resume a job in the background |
| kill %[number] |
Stops a job |
| %[name|number] |
Resume a job in the foreground |
| disown %[number] |
Keep a job to running after terminal is closed |
| nohup job & |
Run a job in the background |