Questions tagged [jobs]
Job control in a shell
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Why does my job control fail inside a loop? [duplicate]
My bash script is supposed to start a process (let's say, run less) and bring it back to foreground every time the process is suspended (e.g. by pressing CTRL-Z).
If I just keep repeating the ...
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Does a shell which does not support job control has the concept of foreground and background processes?
I used to think that only if a shell supports job control, can it has the concept of "foreground" and "background" processes (group). But I read a paragraph indicating that's not true.
From APUE § 10....
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List all jobs in all shell sessions (not just the current shell), by current user
I know that the jobs command only shows jobs running in current shell session.
Is there a bash code that will show jobs across shell sessions (for example, jobs from another terminal tab) for ...
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How to get variables expanded in output of jobs command
As you can see in the following output the variable $i in the output of ps aux is expanded to sleep 1, sleep 2, etc.
Is there a way to make zsh do the same? In the jobs output all the commands get the ...
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How to check which process is writting on FileSystem Solaris
I need to identify what process is writing non-stop on the Disk.
I tried to run prstat -t to get the list of the processes running, but I can't identify/find which process it is.
running df -k , I ...
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Making zsh jobs -p behave as in bash
Is there a way to make jobs -p in zsh behave as in bash, ie. give
only a number, such that one can do kill $(jobs -p)?
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How to plan a task to run after another already running task in bash? [duplicate]
I'm looking for something like command1 ; command2 i.e. how to run command2 after command1 but I'd like to plan execution of command2 when command1 is already running.
It can be solved by just typing ...
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copy numerous files/folders in linux with queuing and the ability to break and continue
I'm copying terabytes worth of data from an OLD OLD OLD *nix system. I could spend the money to buy new hardware to plug the drives into but I want to avoid spending money.
The system is crappy. It ...
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Submitting HPC jobs within an HPC job
I have a large script which relies on input arguments (with getopts). One of these arguments is a directory containing files (all named *bam) This script has 2 parts:
Part1: based on input *bam ...
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Asynchronous background jobs in linux can interfere to each other?
I was trying to use a linux command repeatedly and I decided to use bash scripting. The command is curl and it has blue screen given to the target web server. I was doing this as a pentester in my ...
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How can I periodically record the dir stack and jobs of a shell without occupying the shell?
I have a script
$ cat my.sh
#! /bin/bash -
dirs -l > /tmp/test/dirs_record
jobs > /tmp/test/jobs_record
So when I source ./my.sh, it will output the dir stack and jobs in the invoking shell.
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Jobs not appearing in `jobs`
I have a script called go.sh
python3 bob.py &> lol.log &
python3 alice.py &> lol2.log &
When I run ./go.sh and then run jobs. Neither one of the jobs that I've executed in go....
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In bash, a process group is a job if and only if …?
Here are two cases when a process group in an interactive shell isn't a job of the shell:
$ sleep 100 &
[1] 16081
$ jobs
[1]+ Running sleep 100 &
$ disown %1
$ jobs
$
and
$ ...
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Remove all scheduled before 17:00 jobs with atrm [closed]
I need a shell script that removes all scheduled before 17:00 jobs with the user name as a positional parameter
This is what I tried to do
#!/bin/bash
currentTime = ‘date + %k%M’
check_time_tu_run()
{...
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Linux review T background job
user 23110 0.1 1.7 615392 73004 pts/2 T 20:57 0:13 process
I have a process what I put in the background on a terminal which froze after. Not responsive for keys/reset/commands etc.
I ...
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How can we kill all the background jobs (running or not) in the current shell?
From https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/43709/674
To just kill all background jobs managed by bash, do
kill $(jobs -p)
Does kill $(jobs -p) kill only those "running" background jobs in the current ...
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Why is ps -u command not working?
When I use the 'top' command I get
10366 mithus 25 0 11120 1044 884 R 99.9 0.0 67:14.35 gm
when I start a process using nohup ./gm &.
showing that a process 'gm' is running. ...
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How does bash's job control handle stopped or terminated background jobs?
While studying the internals of bash's job control mechanism under Linux I have came across a little problem of understanding. Let's assume the following scenario:
script is executed in background
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How do I process my data file in bunches (without using the app parallel)? [duplicate]
I have an analysis program and a text file with data in it which for the sake of exposition I will call wibble and data.txt respectively.
I tried a simple for loop to process all of my data:for i ...
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How do I submit SAS jobs in batch mode?
I am using SAS, an analytics software package for Unix (amongst others). I am connecting to my Unix system with PuTTY.
I want to submit 10 sas programs via putty. My requirement is that each job ...
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Running picocom in the background without open session
I would like picocom to log serial data on a remote computer, without having to keep my ssh session to the remote computer alive.
I have tried:
picocom <my options>
This dies when I logout.
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Bash: wait for a fix number of process
I wrote a bash script that executes a Java jar for a n number of times.
In practice, I defined e foo() function, containing the invocation of the jar, and then I run this script:
for RUN in $(seq 1 $...
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How many CPU do I have and how many jobs should I submit?
I do some scientific calculation on a PC(in fact several PCs) and I want to know how many jobs should I submit one time. lscpu shows:
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per ...
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In Linux, is there a way to keep the output of the jobs command showing for a set amount of time ?
I have some trouble when running the following jobs command, because it only shows jobs that have been completed (marked with "Done" ) for a brief amount of time. The following screenshot ...
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determining number of free threads
Suppose that on a computer capable of processing n simultaneous threads, one wishes to launch n-m single-thread jobs where m is the number of threads currently in use. How is m defined and by what ...
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Background processes
I have a script that needs to be run on background, if I run the same script on foreground, the script runs good and it wont stop until we manually interrupt (ctrl^c).
I am sure that the below ...
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scheduling cron jobs to stop a service on Thursday and start it on Friday
I am pretty new to unix systems and their workings. Is there any way to schedule a cron job in unix which runs on every day 12:00 AM and checks if the day is Thursday it stops a service and if the day ...
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Prevent a shell fork from living longer than its initiator?
If I have a Bash script like:
function repeat {
while :; do
echo repeating; sleep 1
done
}
repeat &
echo running once
running once is printed once but repeat's fork lives forever,...
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Is it possible to use commands like `fg` in a shell-script?
I am trying to create a fun Terminal Screensaver which consists of the cmatrix package (one that turns terminal in one similar to the movie The Matrix) and xprintidle to determine idle time of the ...
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stop scheduled cron jobs while database is creating
we have a multi cron jobs runing everyday on different hours. In sometime script is running too long and block database in time where we set up a new one. The problem is that, a new database is no ...
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bash function that sends email after job is finished
I have written following function in my bashrc. It checks if a job is running every 5 seconds and sends email when job is finished.
function jobcheck () {
time=`date`
jobstatus=`jobs $1`
while [...
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Foreground and Background
I just wanted to make sure that I understand the foreground and background process. Let's say, I have a program Hello_world.
If I want to start the program I type in the foreground:
Hello_world
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How to put a job in background without output? [duplicate]
When putting a job in background with the command bg, I have the output of the command of the job.
How to put the job in background (like the bg command) but without any output?
PS: the job is ...
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jobID and PID difference and clarification
So in UNIX every job in a job control centre have a jobID and a PID. What is the difference between the two?
I'm also confused at what the point of a jobID is. If you have two of the same type of job ...
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How can you move a file as a background job and delete all other files and the directory before waiting for the job to finish?
I downloaded a directory of files, directory.1
containing the files
file.1
file.2
file.3
I move file.2 by
mv file.2 ../another.directory &
My problem is I want to get rid of directory.1 and ...
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How do I wait for background jobs in the background?
I have the following problem:
$ some_command & # Adds a new job as a background process
$ wait && echo Foo # Blocks until some_command is finished
$ wait && echo Foo & # ...
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How to start two processes in the background and bring the second job into the forground?
These two processes:
cat /dev/tty > /dev/null &
cat /dev/zero > /dev/null &
have to run in the background but i am having trouble bringing the second job to the foreground.
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How to run a command in the background?
How would you run man -df in the background properly?
When I try ping man -df > /dev/null it goes through at first it gives me a PID number but then it says ping unknown host man and it doesn't list ...
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What happens to background jobs after exiting the shell?
From my understanding, jobs are pipelines (http://web.mit.edu/gnu/doc/html/features_5.html) started from a certain shell and you can manage these jobs (fg, bg, ctrl-z) from within this shell. A job ...
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Pipe all the suspended processes to kill
I am running a script which has to be suspended before killing. The first time I run it there is only one pid for the process. I kill it and run again and the number of PID goes increasing. First of ...
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Better way to go to background in a running command [duplicate]
Actually I do this to bring a running command from the foreground into the background:
ctrl+z
and then
bg
There is a better way?
Because ctrl+z just pause the process and after that I need to run ...
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Cron job for 7 days alone not followed by multiple weeks
I need to execute a cronjob to run once for 7 days alone. I have tried like this:
0 0 * * 0-6 myscript.sh
It gets run for once a day and running every day of the week since I gave as 0-6.
But I ...
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What is the purpose of delayed suspend (Ctrl-Y) in Bash?
The full portion of the Bash man page which is applicable only says:
If the operating system on which bash is running supports job control, bash contains
facilities to use it. Typing the ...
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backgrounded job keeps stopping
I am seeing some strange behavior on my RHEL6 bash prompt. I often like to execute command lines that look like ...
$ ./myscript > junk 2>&1
... then hit ^Z and then execute ...
$ bg
$ ...
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Why does the jobs command not work in shell script?
If I run jobs -l on command prompt it shows me the status of running jobs but if I run below file ./tmp.sh
#! /bin/bash
jobs -l
It shows empty output.
Why is that and how can I obtain information ...
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Cannot grep jobs list when jobs called in a function
I can grep the output of jobs, and I can grep the output of a function. But why can't I grep the output of jobs when it's in a function?
$ # yes, i can grep jobs
$ jobs
[1]+ Running vim
[2]+...
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how to kill job in background?
I know how to kill a job with kill %(number) but is it possible to kill a job as background job, the question is "kill tail as a background job?"
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Is there a limit to processes I can run in the background?
Is there a limit to how many jobs you can have running in the background when using command prompt? I've heard varying answers to this question, but is there a concrete number that is set as the limit?...
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process command and the percent sign usage
I am confused about stopping a job by using the percent sign with the kill command. I cannot find any documentation in the man pages for kill that indicate the percent sign can be used. Can someone ...
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Is there a way of getting full name of background jobs/ processes?
jobs -l
This lists the jobs, but my job names are long and identical and this leads to a confusion as to which one them completed.
Eg: if my jobs are:
aaaaaabbbbbbccccc...............123
...
