Putting Processes in the Background (and bringing them back)

[mmmikeey]

screen.

[axel1973w]

YOU CAN DO EVEN MORE! Lets say you "paused" a process with CTRL+Z and you set that process into the Background with "bg", you can surly start another programm. And of course you can also Pause/bg this Process too just the same way. Now.. How to bring back the FIRST process you set into background ?? and... how many paused or backgrounded processes are there in the meanwhile ? EASY with Linux! while you are back on the prompt after a CTRL-Z or bg you can type in "jobs" and see what processes...

[axel1973w]

... are paused, backgrounded and all, including their corresponding number. So lets say you want to bring back the FIRST Programm to the foreground, just type in "jobs" to check out its number and then type "fg jobnumber" of your programm youd like to bring back, and here you go! So even without a "text console window manager" like screen you are able to do intermission tasks on text-consoles using "onboard tools" that comes with bash. now.. HOW COOL IS THAT?

[ShoeGooToo]

I've noticed that you've been replying to a lot (maybe all) of these videos. Your additions are helpful and informative, keep it up!

[younghifi]

And I thought that this would be about screen... ;)

[bng44270]

tremendous!!!! I've been wanting to know how to do that for a while now.

[peppoj]

thank you! Very useful!!

[terminx12]

dang