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Job control lets you place foreground jobs in the background, bring background jobs to the foreground, or suspend (temporarily stop) running jobs. All modern Unix systems, including Linux and BSD systems, support job control ; thus, the job control features are automatically enabled. Many job control commands take a jobID as an argument. This argument can be specified as follows:
Both shells provide the following job control commands. For more information on these commands, see the section "Built-in Commands (Bash and Korn Shells)" later in this chapter.
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