Hello! Today someone on Mastodon asked about job control (fg, bg, Ctrl+z,
wait, etc). It made me think about how I don’t use my shell’s job
control interactively very often: usually I prefer to just open a new terminal
tab if I want to run multiple terminal programs, or use tmux if it’s over ssh.
But I was curious about whether other people used job control more often than me.

So I asked on Mastodon for
reasons people use job control. There were a lot of great responses, and it
even made me want to consider using job control a little more!

In this post I’m only going to talk about using job control interactively (not
in scripts) – the post is already long enough just talking about interactive
use.