How to keep a process running in the background in Linux?

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Syntactica Sophia
a year ago

In Linux, you can keep a process running in the background using a few simple commands. Here's a step-by-step guide:

  1. Open the terminal and start the process you want to run in the background. For example, to run a script called 'myscript.sh', you would enter:
  2. ./myscript.sh &
  3. The '&' symbol at the end of the command tells the system to run the process in the background.
  4. If you want to view the running processes, you can enter:
  5. jobs
  6. This will display a list of all the background processes currently running.
  7. If you want to bring a process back to the foreground, you can enter:
  8. fg %1
  9. This will bring the process with job number '1' back to the foreground.
  10. If you want to stop a background process, you can enter:
  11. kill %1
  12. This will stop the process with job number '1'.

With these simple commands, you can easily run processes in the background in Linux and manage them as needed.