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Old 08-06-2010
kill a command I am running / then put it to background
I have a command running in the foreground (and so my term window is locked up) and I want to kill it, then resume it in the background and go home. It is creating a zip file, and the file will be written to the current directory - no std in / std out issues.

How do I do this? Kill it with a control-Z, then how do I get it going again in the background?

Danny Hindes, hindesite
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Old 08-06-2010
Once you've ctrl-z'ed it, run bg to put it into background execution.
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Old 08-07-2010
ctrl - c will actually give you the terminal back killing all the processes running under its ownership. then run the process in nohup mode -

ex -

>>nohup abc.sh &

above command will give you back the terminal and run the script/ command in background. Once you logout the session, shell will transfer the ownership of the process to bin.
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Old 08-10-2010
Thanks - this works.

- hindesite
 
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