Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!rgreen From: rgreen@druhi.ATT.COM (Rodney R. Green) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: SUSPENDED PROGRAMS Message-ID: <3890@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Feb 89 15:12:01 GMT References: <248@ibd.BRL.MIL> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 17 in article <248@ibd.BRL.MIL>, heilpern@ibd.BRL.MIL (Mark A. Heilpern ) says: > > > A while back I cam across the 4.3BSD ability to 'suspend' a running process > by hitting ^Z. (I think this is a CSH feature) (bug??) > > Is there any way to resume the process, either by letting it continue to > run in the background or foreground? To bring the job back into the foreground, type fg; to run it in the background, use bg. Jobs running in the background already (either put their using ^Z, bg or with the & at the end of the command) can be brought back into the foreground using fg also. Rodney Green AT&T Bell Laboratories Denver, CO rgreen@druhi.ATT.COM ...!att!druhi!rgreen