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linux: kill background task

How do I kill the last spawned background task in linux? Example: doSomething doAnotherThing doB & doC doD #kill doB ????

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run a shell script and immediately background it, however keep the ability to inspect its output

How can I run a shell script and immediately background it, however keep the ability to inspect its output any …

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Why can't I use job control in a bash script?

In this answer to another question, I was told that in scripts you don't have job control (and trying to …

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Wait for bash background jobs in script to be finished

To maximize CPU usage (I run things on a Debian Lenny in EC2) I have a simple script to launch …

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In what order should I send signals to gracefully shutdown processes?

In a comment on this answer of another question, the commenter says: don’t use kill -9 unless absolutely necessary! …

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How can I suppress “Terminate batch job (Y/N)” confirmation in PowerShell?

When I press Ctrl+C in PowerShell, I receive: Terminate batch job (Y/N)? Similar to https://superuser.com/questions/35698/…

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Does linux kill background processes if we close the terminal from which it has started?

I have an embedded system, on which I do telnet and then I run an application in background: ./app_name &…

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How to start a linux shell as from /etc/inittab

We used to have two entries in our /etc/inittab: ::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS ttyS0::respawn:-/bin/sh …

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