About Commands, Processes, and Jobs

A "Command" is a single order you give the computer.

A "Process" is the OS's ID-number for a running command.

A "Job" is a group of one or more processes you started on a single command line.

  1. Seeing a list of processes: The ps and top commands.
  2. Seeing a list of your jobs: The jobs command

Tasks:

  1. Make up a sentence that gives someone two or more orders.
  2. Count how many processes a multi-command command line will produce.


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