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Adding @gvwilson's original lesson from #25

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https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/blob/gh-pages/intermediate/shell/04-job.md
to the new shell-extras lesson.

I'd be interested in comments about how to handle the ^Z and ^C commands - they're not input in the same way that cat blah.txt is, and yet they need to be indicated somehow...

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Maybe you could show some "simulated" output from a command as it's running, and then show the effects of ^C and ^Z?

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Another note, backgrounding a process that prints to stdout will allow it to continue to do so, possibly messing badly with the terminal. We should probably have a mention of that somewhere.

important today than it was back in the Dark Ages, it is coming back
into its own as more people begin to leverage the power of computer
networks.
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That last half sentence is rather vague and isn't adding much. What has this to do with networks?

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@kynan , @gdevenyi , I finally updated! More thoughts?

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The third column (labelled PGID) is the ID of the *process group* this
process belongs to. We won't discuss process groups in this lecture, but
they're often used to manage sets of related processes. Column 4 shows
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Break paragraph before Column 4

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kynan commented Jul 31, 2015

@ChristinaLK some more minor suggestions, otherwise this looks good I think.

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