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Job control lets you place foreground jobs in the background, bring background jobs to the foreground, or suspend (temporarily stop) running jobs. The C shell provides the following commands for job control. For more information on these commands, see Section 8.9, "Built-in csh and tcsh Commands".
Put a job in the background.
Put a job in the foreground.
List active jobs.
Terminate a job.
Notify when a background job finishes.
Suspend a background job.
Suspend the foreground job.
Many job control commands take jobID as an argument. This argument can be specified as follows:
Job number n.
Job whose command line starts with string s.
Job whose command line contains string s.
Current job.
Current job (same as preceding).
Current job (same as preceding).
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