Background Process (bg)

Run processes in the background

Description

bg supports two modes: it can either be run as a function block which will execute in the background, or it can take stopped processes and daemonize them.

Usage

POSIX only:

bg { code block }

bg fid

Examples

bg { sleep 5; out "Morning" }

Detail

The examples above will work on any system (Windows included). However the ctrl+z usage of backgrounding a stopped process (like Bash) is only supported on POSIX systems due to the limitation of required signals on non-platforms. This means the usage described in the examples is cross cross platform while bg int currently does not work on Windows nor Plan 9.

Synonyms

See Also


This document was generated from builtins/core/processes/bgfg_doc.yaml.

This site's content is rebuilt automatically from murex's source code after each merge to the master branch. Downloadable murex binaries are also built with the website.

Last built on Wed Sep 18 21:18:57 UTC 2024 against commit c037883c03788357164e9846c84d9f777251495d9452a8e.

Current version is 6.3.4225 (develop) which has been verified against tests cases.