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If you have a copy of the executable script
bother.sh in your current directory,
what would you type at the command line to run this script in the
background?
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If a command is running in the background, can it take input from the keyboard?
no
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What would you type at the command line if you wanted to suspend a job running in the foreground?
Control Z
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Name one of the two ways you make a job running in the background stop running.
bring it to the foreground and then stop it using Control C
or
use the kill command
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What command would you use to see all currently running jobs?
jobs
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Once you have suspended a job, what command would you use to send it into the background?
bg
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When using the
kill command to stop a running job, what information do you give to tell it what to kill?
either the job number or the process ID
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If you run a command in the background and DO NOT redirect it's output,
where does the output of this command go?
to the screen
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What is the command to bring a background job into the foreground?
fg
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When you run a command in the background, two number appear.
What is each of these two numbers?
job number and process ID