Tip of the Week

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Beta Lt Icydemon

Since neverdie hasn't posted his regular Tip of the Week here's something we found with the CAIS guys while searching like mad and reading the fine manual.

While running a program in a linux shell you can terminate it temporarily with Ctrl+Z. Then you'll be brought back to the shell and you'll see:

[1]+  Stopped                 irssi

Now you can dir, ls or anything else, even run a second program. By typing "jobs" you'll see what's running in the background like:

icydemon@lethality:~$ jobs
[1]-  Stopped                 irssi
[2]+  Stopped                 vi

Now, by typing fg and the number of the job it gets back to your program! like:

icydemon@lethality:~$ fg 1

will get me back to irssi.

It's very handy if you are connected to volund and need to do multiple things.

I hope you find it useful :)

Lieutenant Icydemon
General Plumbing (a.k.a. Super Mario)

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>Tip of the Week - Beta Lt Icydemon 2008-04-21 20:57:05 <
- RE: Tip of the Week - 2nd Lt Life2Atreus 2008-06-11 23:28:43

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Message:	On 2008-04-21 20:57:05, Icydemon wrote >Since neverdie hasn't posted his regular Tip of the Week here's something we found with the CAIS guys while searching like mad and reading the fine manual. > >While running a program in a linux shell you can terminate it temporarily with Ctrl+Z. Then you'll be brought back to the shell and you'll see: >[code][1]+ Stopped irssi[/code] > >Now you can dir, ls or anything else, even run a second program. By typing "jobs" you'll see what's running in the background like: >[code]icydemon@lethality:~$ jobs >[1]- Stopped irssi >[2]+ Stopped vi >[/code] > >Now, by typing fg and the number of the job it gets back to your program! like: >[code]icydemon@lethality:~$ fg 1[/code] >will get me back to irssi. > >It's very handy if you are connected to volund and need to do multiple things. > >I hope you find it useful :)
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