nixCraft 🐧Quiz: You run the Unix or Linux command:
sleep 100 &
What is the most likely state of the sleep process immediately after you press Enter key?
a) Running in the foreground 🏃♀️
b) Running in the background 🏃♂️
c) Stopped 🛑
d) Zombie 🧟♀️
pluhmen
Korma Chameleon@nixCraft tired, the sleep process is tired and needs some time to deal with your signals later
John Maxwell
Ursidinoj/The Bjornsdottirs
bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵@nixCraft e) sleeping in the background
Chris 
@nixCraft oh.. er.. i had a script where i needed to use "sleep &" for something, and it worked.. now, if i can remember what the script was, and why i would possibly need to do this.. and why it worked.
i'm gonna go B
Lucas
gunstick@nixCraft don't you know how to create a poll on mastodon?
Yes I know I don't know
No, I know that I know
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zartocle
Alan Hicks@nixCraft
It's running in the foreground in its own process
The & means that process is also running in the background
Multitasking is a superpower 💪
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Feike@AlanHicksLondon @nixCraft tldr is my friend
Slash909uk
Arnaud Launay
fancy_sauce
PedroMJ
Robert Maule@nixCraft 2 with 76.5% confidence
Radek 🐧
swab148
theM0ntarCann0n@nixCraft it will be ran in background for bunch of cycles then kernel should put it aside for those moreorless 100 sec then run it for another bunch of cycles until it returns.