Taking Control of the System

Summary

This chapter has covered taking complete control of your system. We’ve looked at what processes are, how they’re separate from programs, and how they can be controlled or viewed using programs such as top and ps. In addition, we explored job management under BASH. You saw that you can stop, start, and pause programs at your convenience.

In the next chapter, we’ll take a look at several tricks and techniques that you can use with the BASH shell to finely hone your command-line skills.