Jobs In Linux

The general job control commands in Linux are:

jobs	list the current jobs
fg	resume the job that’s next in the queue
fg %[number]	resume job [number]
bg	Push the next job in the queue into the background
bg %[number]	Push the job [number] into the background
kill %[number]	Kill the job numbered [number]
kill -[signal] %[number]	Send the signal [signal] to job number [number]
disown %[number]	disown the process(no more terminal will be owner), so command will be alive even after closing the terminal.

That’s pretty much all of them. Note the % infront of the job number in the commands - this is what tells kill you’re talking about jobs and not processes.

Note bash lets you skip the fg if you specify a job number.

For example, these are equivalent and resume the latest job:

%
%%
fg
fg %

These resume job #4:

%4
fg 4