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How to manipulate your process status

Filed in archive Tips & Tricks by Rom Feria on November 24, 2007

How to manipulate your process status
There are times when you want to execute an application on the command-line without interrupting the most recent process or application that is running. Whilst this is very basic, I find that n00bs may not be familiar with this trick.

On the command-line, execute a process, e.g., "ping" without the trailing "&" that keeps it running in the background. Hit Ctrl-Z to temporarily stop the process.

$ ping 10.32.1.7
^Z
[1]+ Stopped ping 10.32.1.7


Activate it but run as a background process.

$ bg
[1]+ ping 10.32.1.7 &


Continue doing what you are doing but the process continues to run in the background.

Transfer it back as the current process.

$ fg
ping 10.32.1.7


Now, the process is back as the currently running application.






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