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Display all the processes of a given shell. |
ps ps stands for 'process status' |
Display all processes running on your machine, including processes without a controlling terminal. |
ps -x Most processes on a Unix machine are run without a controlling terminal. |
Show every process on the computer, updated every couple of seconds. |
top The top command shows how much CPU each processes is using. |
Write a command that suspends execution for 3 seconds. |
sleep 3 |
Run the following command in the background: sleep 1000 |
sleep 1000 & When commands are followed by &, they are run in the background. |
Run the sleep 500 command in the background and then show all the processes that are running in the background. |
sleep 500 & jobs |
Run the sleep 300 command in the background and then stop the process. |
# start the process
sleep 300 &
# find the PID (process ID)
ps
# PID is 17114 on my machine
kill 17114
# verify the process is terminated
jobs
The kill command is use to send signals (like interrupt, quit, abort, or kill) to processes. kill sends a software termination signal by default. |
Suppose a process has a PID of 10100 and does not respond to the kill 10100 command. How can this command be terminated? |
kill -9 10100 kill -9 sends a KILL signal, which immediately terminates the process. kill -9 does not do any cleanup, so it's best to avoid, but is sometimes necessary when processes don't respond to kill (which is the same as kill -15). Type $ man kill to learn more about the kill command. |
Run sleep 2200 in the foreground and then send a SIGSTOP signal to the process. |
sleep 2200
# Press Control + z
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Run sleep 3333 in the foreground and then send a SIGSTOP signal to the process. Start the process back up in the background. |
sleep 3333
# Press Control + z to send SIGSTOP signal to process
# Find job number
jobs
# job number is 1 on my machine
# Restart job in background
bg %1
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Run sleep 999 in the foreground and then send a SIGINT signal to the process. Then start the process back up in the foreground. |
sleep 999
# Press Control + c to send a SIGINT signal to the process
Once a SIGINT signal is sent to a process, the process cannot be restarted. |