Mastodawn

Julia Evans Jul 2, 2024

poll: when you're using your shell **interactively**, do you ever use its job control features (ctrl+z, fg, bg, `jobs`, `wait`, etc?)

(other than maybe occasionally backgrounding a process with &)

yes, frequently

23.1%

yes, occasionally

36.8%

never (or almost never)

39%

other

1%

Poll ended at Jul 3, 2024 at 12:13pm.

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llewelly

@b0rk
before screen (or tmux), I used job control features all the time. After I started using screen (or tmux), it replaced job control in nearly all instances. Actually I can't think of any exceptions.