[Cialug] Starting two jobs at once

[Barry Von Ahsen]

On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> Thanks for the reply. One of my goals is to make it easy for new contributors to get started. Right now, they just need a few common development tools. In this case, Make and Python.
> 
> Two things have come to mind, but I haven't tried them and I think they're both flawed:
> 
> 1.
> Start a task and background it with &
> Start the foreground task and wait until it completes
> Kill the background task
> 
> The prob is I'm not sure really how to kill a background task once it's in the background
> 


you can use jobs and/or fg to manage background tasks, they're shell built-ins (csh and sh, at least)

you know when you forget the & and you have to ^Z then bg?  fg is the opposite


-barry