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 PID
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 th
