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# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">sleep 700</span><br><br>
# Notice that this process will run for '''700 seconds''', and is forcing the user to wait until this process finishes.<br>A process that is '''running in the terminal''' is referred to as a '''foreground process'''.<br><br>The Unix/Linux system is designed to allow users to send '''preemptive signals''' to manage those processes.<br><br>
# Press the following '''key combination ''' to '''terminate''' the command running on the terminal: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">ctrl-c</span><br><br>You should notice that the process that was running in the foreground has been '''interrupted''' (i.e. terminated).<br>'''NOTE:''' The '''ctrl-c''' key combination sends '''SIGINT''' ('''Signal Interrupt''' - which is signal '''#2''') signal to terminate a process<br>that is running on the terminal (i.e. the '''foreground''').<br><br>
# Reissue the Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">sleep 700</span><br><br>
# Press the '''key combination''': <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">ctrl-z</span><br><br>
# You should now see output similar to what is displayed below:<br><span style="font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">[1]+ Stopped sleep 700</span><br><br>'''NOTE:''' This indicates that this process has been placed into the '''background'''.<br>This is useful in order to "'''free-up'''" the terminal to run other commands.<br><br>
# Clear your bash shell terminal screen.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">jobs</span><br><br>You should see the following output similar that was displayed above:<br><span style="font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">[1]+ sleep 700 &</span><br><br>This display indicates that this process in the background is '''running in the background'''<br>(denoted by the ampersand character "&"). Now the command is counting-down to zero.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">fg</span><br><br>You should notice that the ''sleep'' command is now running in the '''foreground'''.<br><br>'''TIP:''' You can issue Linux commands with ampersand "'''&'''" in your terminal to '''run''' processes in the<br>'''background''' automatically <u>without</u> having to issue ''ctrl-z'' and ''bg'' short-cut keys.<br><br>
# Press the '''key combination''' to '''terminate''' the process running in the '''foreground''': <br><span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">ctrl-c</span> to '''terminate''' the process running in the '''foreground'''.<br><br>
# Issue the following Linux command: <span style="color:blue;font-family:courier;font-weight:bold">sleep 500 & sleep 600 & sleep 700 &</span><br><br>
# Issue the '''jobs''' command. What do you notice?<br><br>In the jobs command output, jobs that display a plus sign ('''+''') indicates the '''most recent''' process<br>placed in to the background, and a minus sign ('''-''') indicates the '''second most recent''' process<br>placed into the background.<br><br>The '''kill''' command issued to terminate processes that are running in the '''foreground''' or '''background'''.<br>Issuing the kill command <u>without</u> options would send the '''SIGTERM''' signal (eg. ''signal terminate'' - which is signal '''#15''').<br><br>
