[Gllug] how to kill

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 16 Mar 2005, mimo wrote:
>I guess everybody knows this bash thing where you can press CTRL Z and 
>the current process goes to sleep (which is sometimes the only way to 
>get out of some stuck thing). Later on you can list your sleeping 
>processes with jobs command. Odd thing I always found is that they are 
>numbered 1,2,3,.. Now obviously, doing kill 1 is not a good idea, esp. 
>when you are root. Nevertheless, kill -- just invoked like this -- says 
>pid or jobid. But doesnt say how you specify the jobid. Tried [1] -- 
>didnt work. Anyone?

kill %1

Also "bg 1" or "fg 1" to restart that job in the background/foreground.

The man page for kill notes that "kill" may be a shell builtin, so of
course you should be checking the man page for your shell.

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