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 🧟♀️
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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