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After you type your command line and hit the carriage return
<cr>,
the shell will respond with the PID (in this case,
214) and then return a shell prompt.
You are now free to
continue executing other commands.
To check on the status of any process which you have
running, you can use the ps command.
Simply type:
ps
The shell will respond with information about any process
which you have active.
The following type of information
will be displayed:
PID
214
TTY TIME COMMAND
1
0.01 Is
The PID is the process identification number, TTY is the
terminal identification, the TIME is the cumulative
execution time for the process, and COMMAND is the command
name being executed.
You can receive even more information
by using the -1 option as follows:
ps-1
The kill command can be used to end
has finished.
a
process before it
The process to be terminated must be
identified by its PID.
For example:
kill 214
57