Monitoring Process Progress

Finding Processes

Find MySQL processes...

pgrep mysql

or

pidof mysqld

Terminating Processes

To terminate process 4567...

kill 4567

To forcibly terminate process 4567...

kill -9 4567

kill -SIGKILL 4567

To kill Job #2 (from jobs output)...

kill %2

To kill all wget processes you could use...

pkill wget

Running Processes in the Background

To start a script and run it in the background (i.e. you can continue to use the current shell whilst the process runs) use...

myscript.sh &

If you log out of your shell the process will terminate. To prevent this use...

nohup myscript.sh &

To see which jobs are running in your shell...

jobs

To see which processes are running in your session...

ps

To see all processes...

ps -ef

ps aux

To move a long running script (currently running in the foreground) to the background...

Ctrl-Z

bg

To bring it back to the foreground...

fg

If there is more than 1 job in the background, to move jobs 2 to the foreground...

fg %2

To set background job 2 to nohup so you can terminate your shell (bash)...

disown %2

To set all background jobs to nohup so you can terminate your shell (bash)...

disown -a

To set process 4567 (from ps) to nohup (AIX/Solaris)...

nohup -p 4567

Alternate method...

kill -SIGSTOP 4567

kill -SIGCONT 4567

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