Job Control on \*NIX systems

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000

If you are not a UNIX user/not a geek, please turn away right now.

Every year, I either chance upon something new, or remind myself of something interesting that I’ve forgotten. This is the latter case. On a *NIX shell, you can push a foreground process to background (obviously without terminating it):

$ ./someprocess ... ... ... Ctrl-Z [1]+ Stopped ./someprocess $ bg [1]+ ./someprocess &

To bring the process into foreground:

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Job Control on \*NIX systems