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dgt_bash03 – Job Control

Module Title: dgt_bash03 – Job Control

Description:

Welcome to “dgt_bash03 – Job Control,” a comprehensive module designed to deepen your understanding and mastery of managing jobs within the Bash shell environment. This module is tailored for both beginners and experienced users who seek to enhance their command line proficiency by effectively controlling processes using job control features.

Throughout this module, you will gain hands-on experience with essential job management commands such as bg background and fg foreground. These tools are pivotal in optimizing workflow efficiency, allowing you to multitask and manage multiple jobs simultaneously within your terminal sessions.

Key module Objectives:

  1. Understanding Job Control Basics: Learn the foundational concepts of job control in Bash, including what constitutes a job and how Bash handles them.

  2. Executing Background Processes with bg: Discover how to move processes to the background using the bg command. This will allow you to continue working on other tasks without having to wait for long-running commands to complete.

  3. Bringing Jobs to the Foreground with fg: Master the use of the fg command to resume suspended jobs, bringing them back into focus in your terminal session.

  4. Practical Examples and Scenarios: Engage with real-world examples that demonstrate how job control can be effectively utilized in everyday tasks. You will learn by doing, with practical exercises designed to solidify your understanding.

  5. Advanced Job Control Techniques: Explore more sophisticated methods of job management, including controlling multiple jobs and handling complex workflows within the shell.

  6. Troubleshooting Common Issues: Equip yourself with strategies to troubleshoot typical problems encountered while managing jobs in Bash.

Who Should Enroll:

  • System administrators looking to refine their command-line skills.
  • Developers who frequently use Bash for scripting or automation tasks.
  • IT professionals interested in leveraging job control to streamline their workflow.
  • Anyone eager to become more proficient in managing processes within a Unix-like environment.

By the end of this module, you will be equipped with the skills necessary to efficiently manage and control jobs using Bash, leading to increased productivity and better management of your terminal sessions. Join us for an engaging learning experience that promises to transform how you interact with your shell environment!
The students can push their exercises to the Academy DevOps & SRE GIT project. For this module, create a folder with your username as its name in the following subfolder: https://github.com/Garanti-Del-Talento/gdt_academy