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Old 04-12-2009
Bug bringing a process to the foreground

If i have a single file i would just press fg but if i have multiple files running in the backgound and want to bring a specific one to the foreground how would i do that? Thanks!!
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Old 04-12-2009
When you send a job to the background, you'll see the job number, such as:
Code:
[1] 17053

That "[1]" is the job number and 17053 (in this example) is the process ID. To resume it, do the following:
Code:
fg %1

 
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