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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this lesson.

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So in this video, we're going to see how you can start a process in the background.

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Bring it to the foreground and how you can kill that process.

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Perfect.

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So let's quickly begin.

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So to start a process in the background, we are going to add ampersand sign at the end.

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As you can see over here.

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So I'm going to start a process which is nano and I want to edit a file which is X, Y, Z and ad end

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at the end of the command.

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And you can see a new process.

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ID has been assigned to this which is two five, eight four and you cannot see the nano screen over

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here because it is automatically pushed in to the background.

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Perfect.

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So now we have our PID, which is 2584.

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Let's verify that using OCS and let's grep for nano.

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And you can see there is a process which has been running which is 2584 PID.

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Perfect.

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Now, as we know, this process has been pushed to the background.

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So let's verify that using the command BG and you can see the process is running in the background and

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the command is nano, x, y, z.

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In case you want to bring this process to foreground, we are going to use the command f g and you can

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see the nano terminal through which you can add it.

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Now this is very handy sometimes in case you want to spawn a process, push it automatically into the

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background, and at a later point of time you want to resume the process or resume your work and start

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editing it.

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Now this becomes very, very useful and handy.

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Now let's go back over here.

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And if you want to kill the process that has been running, you do not need it anymore.

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So let's kill the nano process.

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So kill and the PID of the current process that has been running and hit enter.

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And you can see we have successfully killed the process.

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So this is it for this video.

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I hope you guys understood how you can push a process in a background, how you can bring it to foreground

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and how you can kill it if you no longer need it.

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Thank you.