3. Control jobs for multi-tasking (a) Create some jobs

i. Type cat command in the terminal, and press ctrl-c to terminate it. Type jobs command and you will see nothing.

ii. Type cat command in the terminal, and press ctrl-z to stop it (suspend it). Use jobs command and what do you see?

iii. Execute some command in the background using the &, for example: sleep 90 & iv. Execute another command (for example, man nano) and press ctrl-z to stop it. v. Use the jobs to see all jobs.

(b) Switch between jobs

i. Use the fg command to bring a stopped job to foreground. By default it is the one with the + sign (see jobs command output)

ii. Or we can specifically use fg [job-number] to bring any jobs to foreground. For example, fg 3. See the job number from the jobs command output.

iii. Use ctrl-z to stop a job and send it to background

iv. Practice switching between the nano job and the man nano job. (c) Kill the cat job (terminate it)

1. kill %1

2. Verify using the jobs command