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%
Poll ended at .
Show threadJulia EvansJul 2, 2024

I'm also curious about reasons folks are using job control instead of opening a new tab in their terminal/tmux/screen

so far we have:

* use ctrl+z to suspend a CPU-hungry program because you need to use the CPU for something else
* you're in a situation with no screen/tmux/fancy terminal
* background a GUI app so it's not taking up a terminal tab
* accidentally started a long-running job without tmux/screen
* already set up a lot of environment variables
* accidentally ran ctrl+z

(2/?)

Show threadChris, and a spooky owlJul 2, 2024
@b0rk forgot to launch tmux/screen after remoting in and starting a long-running job, is usually it
Show threadShadSterlingJul 2, 2024
@cawhitworth @b0rk I made a `screento` script to automate that for me
(still have to remember to use it tho)
Show threadbilbo_b
@ShadSterling @cawhitworth @b0rk care to share it?
Jul 3, 2024 at 4:50amWeb
Show threadShadSterlingJul 3, 2024
@bilbo_b @cawhitworth @b0rk I wish we had a shell with a package manager where I could publish such things, but since we don't I made a gist: https://gist.github.com/ShadSterling/a205e0037b33892fe15ca3e85df37b3d
~/bin/screento

~/bin/screento. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist
Show threadbilbo_bJul 4, 2024
@ShadSterling @cawhitworth @b0rk thank you, will try