Create, Stop and Terminate Jobs

The illustration describes a life cycle of a job. Here is a summary explanation of the life cycle.

Create job

• When you run a command without &, the command will run as a foreground job.
• When you run a command with &, the command will run as a background job.

Stop job

• You can stop (suspend) a job with Ctrl + Z

Terminate jobs

• To terminate a running foreground job, you can use Ctrl + C
• To terminate a background job or a stopped foreground job, you can use the kill command with the process ID or %job ID.