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Question 1

"Yes, and..." is a wonderful rule-of-thumb in improvisational comedy. Not so much in the UNIX world. When I run the admittedly silly yes& command, I cannot interrupt it. The terminal ...

Question 2

I run a lot of vim windows, and often put them in the bg. The problem is that they all say vim when I list jobs so it's hard to distinguish. [1] - suspended nvim [2] - suspended nvim [3] + ...

Question 3

What are the key differences between a Cron job and a scheduler, and in what use cases is using one of these tools more appropriate than using the other?

Question 4

I have tried running the following commands: cat base64 /dev/stdin md5sum /dev/stdin tail /dev/stdin In all cases when I do: ^Z $ bg $ jobs I get the status: [1]+ Stopped instead of [1]+ Running. ...

Question 5

In Bash 5.2, the output of jobs after either of the following is identical modulo job numbers: sleep 3 # press C-z s() { sleep 3; } s # press C-z In both, jobs produces something like [1]+ Stopped ...

Question 6

I have a job that runs in the background via ctrl + z and bg, and after reconnecting ssh I cannot find that job in the jobs command but can find it in ps grep. For now, I searched this and I get the ...

Question 7

I know that ctrl + z changes a process from foreground to background - as suspended - through SIGTSTP. I am able to re-run that background suspended process through either fg or bg as required. ...

Question 8

Is it possible to list all running background processes with the ps command, or is the only option for getting a list of background processes the jobs command?

Question 9

I have a process that is blocking in nature. It is executed first. In order to execute the second process, I moved the first process to the background and executed the second process. Using the wait ...

Question 10

The output of jobs looks something like this [1] Stopped TERM=xterm-256color vim --servername vim ~/.gitconfig [2]- Stopped TERM=xterm-256color vim --servername vim ~...

Question 11

I need to retrieve the PID of a process piped into another process that together are spawned as a background job in bash. Previously I simply relied on pgrep, but as it turns out there can be a delay ...

Question 12

I have several cronjobs which runs at different times in a day, but one particular cron job is not running as expected and getting terminated after sometime. 0 0 * * * python3 /scratch/pyscripts/...

Question 13

This is what I tested in Arch's dash shell and FreeBSD's default sh shell, the results are the same. $ sleep 100 & $ jobs [1] + Running sleep 100 $ jobs | wc 0 0 ...

Question 14

I need to start a service1 in bash commandline. After a while I dont need that service anymore and I do a CTRL-C to stop it. The service started another background service2. To stop that I usually do ...

Question 15

I have a custom script which runs on a cPanel server (CentOS 6) which is as below. It starts a service on the specified port which accepts incoming data. It uses start command and runs ok. #!/bin/bash ...

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Questions tagged [jobs]

Why does "yes&" crash my Bash session?

How can I have "names" for my background processes (not just the command)?

Cron Job vs. Scheduler: Understanding the Differences and Use Cases

Why are commands reading from /dev/stdin get a status "[1]+ Stopped" when sent to background?

Why do backgrounded commands in Zsh functions not show correctly in jobs?

Why jobs lost when after reconnect ssh?

What signal do bg and fg send?

How do I list all background processes?

Call other process after executing a blocking process in shell

Is there a way to quickly change dir to one from where one of the jobs is running?

Reliable way to get PID of piped background process

cron job terminating after sometime while executing the script

Can't grep or word count the output of jobs command in dash

run one command and execute another after first killed by CTRL C in bash

start command in linux

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