Julia EvansJul 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%
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Show threadLiminal witch 🧙‍♀️ Sarah
@b0rk is there an explanation what are "its job control features". I think I wasn't at school on that day 😔
Jul 2, 2024 at 12:24pmWeb
Show threadJulia EvansJul 2, 2024

@xgebi yeah they're a little bit obscure! it's a set of features that let you:

* stop a program and resume it (ctrl+z)
* move a process from running in the foreground to the background
* run multiple programs in the same terminal, see which ones you have running right now, etc

it's a bit weird because these features were invented before we had screen/tmux/terminal emulators with multiple tabs, so some of the problems it solves aren't problems anymore in the same way most of the time