[lug] Job Control

[Ferdinand Schmid]

HI,

You missed the second line.

bg starts the program in the background after CTRL-z stopped it.

fg would start the program in the forground again.

Ferdinand

--On Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:00:57 PM -0600 Paul Nowosielski
<Paul at danamusic.com> wrote:

> But I don't want to stop the program.
> 
> I want it to *continue*  to  run in the background.
> 
> So I'm looking for a command similar to the '&' thats placed after a
> command that lets the program continue to run in the back ground...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 10:30, Hugh Brown wrote:
>> On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 00:17, Paul Nowosielski wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> > 
>> > A simple question...
>> > If I start a job (ex: icewm-light & )
>> > and I bring that job to the foreground how can I send it to the
>> > back ground without stopping it?
>> > 
>> > Thanks.
>> > 
>> 
>> Ctrl-Z (default to stop a program)
>> bg
>> 
>> 
>> Hugh
>> 
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