On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Tom wrote:
> Nobody mentioned fg command for taking job to foreground yet!?
Tom,
That's because it was not appropriat for the task.
Rich
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Nobody mentioned fg command for taking job to foreground yet!?
Summary:
Start something in background: ./send-nl.sh &
Get job number (1 in this example): jobs
Bring job listed as 1 to foreground: fg %1
Kill job 1: kill %1
Yet another way to stop job 1: kill -s 19 %1
Stop any process you own by
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Dale Snell wrote:
> You don't need anything so baroque.
Dave, Michael, Dale:
Thank you all. Cherry picking from the offered solutions I found what
works.
From the directory in which the script started I typed ^z. This paused the
running script. Then I typed 'bg' and
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 13:31:30 -0700 (PDT), in message
alpine.LNX.2.11.1610051324060.6157@localhost, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Seems to me that I should be able to pause the running script
> (PID: 10952 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sleep 15) or whatever the PID is when I
> pause the script, then run bg 10952 to
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 01:31:30PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Starting a script to run in the background is simple: append '&' to the
> command line. When the script runs for a few hours and I forget to start it
> in the background (as I did today) I'd like to pause it (using ctrl-z) and
>
On 10/05/2016 01:31 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Starting a script to run in the background is simple: append '&' to the
> command line. When the script runs for a few hours and I forget to start it
> in the background (as I did today) I'd like to pause it (using ctrl-z) and
> continue running it
Starting a script to run in the background is simple: append '&' to the
command line. When the script runs for a few hours and I forget to start it
in the background (as I did today) I'd like to pause it (using ctrl-z) and
continue running it in the background.
My web searches show how to
