Job Control (bg, fg, jobs)

Welcome to Job Control! This powerful feature in your Linux shell lets you manage running programs without closing your terminal or opening new ones.

Think of it as multitasking for your command line. You can pause a task, move it to the background, or bring it back to the foreground.

When you run a command, it usually runs in the foreground. This means it takes control of your terminal, and you can't type new commands until it finishes.

A background process, however, runs independently. It frees up your terminal so you can continue working on other things while it executes.