poll: when you're using your shell **interactively**, do you ever use its job control features (ctrl+z, fg, bg, `jobs`, `wait`, etc?)

(other than maybe occasionally backgrounding a process with &)

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@b0rk When I have a long running task and want to be notified when it finishes, I frequently do Ctrl Z + `fg && say "The task is done"`. I haven't found any other common use case for the other features though

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