Saturday 14 November 2015

Mangaging Bash Processes

Cited from "Bioinformatics Data Skills Reproducible and Robust Research with Open Source Tools"

What is a shell process?

"When we run programs through the Unix shell, they become processes until they successfully finish or terminate with an error."

Background Processes

To run a program in the background, an ampersand (&) can be appended to the end of the command.

To check what processes have been running in the background, the command of "jobs" can be run.


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