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# Symbolic (Soft) Links:<ol type="a"><li>What is the purpose of creating a symbolic (soft) link?</li><li>What is a limitation of a symbolic (soft) link?</li><li>Write a single Linux command to create a symbolic link called '''~/shortcuts/murray.saul.lnk'''<br>to the <u>existing</u> directory called '''~murray.saul'''</li><li>Are the inode numbers identical for both of those files?</li><li>What data is contained in the file called '''~/shortcuts/murray.saul.lnk'''?</li></ol><br>
# Background / Foreground Processes:<ol type="a"><li>Write a single Linux command to run the program called '''~/clean.sh''' in the '''background'''.</li><li>Write a single Linux command to place the previously issued program in the '''foreground'''.</li><li>Write a single Linux command to '''confirm''' that this program is running in the background.</li><li>What '''key-combination''' would you issue to send that program again into the '''background'''?</li><li>Write a single Linux command to have that process sent into the background to '''continue running'''?</li></ol><br>
# Managing Background processes:<br>Use the following diagram to answer the accompanying questions.<br>Each of the following questions will use the diagram below and are treated as independent situations.<br><br><span style="font-family:courier;font-weight:bold;">[1] Stopped vim a<br>[2]- Stopped vim b<br>[3]+ Stopped vim c</span><ol type="a"><li>Write a single Linux command to bring the second-recently process placed in the background into the '''foreground'''.</li><li>Write a single Linux command to terminate the '''terminate job #3'''.</li></ol><br>
# Write a single Linux command to display running processes in “real-time”.
# Write a single Linux command to terminal a process that has the following PID: '''22384'''
