> 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 [[https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112716835387523648 | 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.