[Nottingham] 10 shortcuts to master bash, backgrounding, and screen

[Martin]

Folks,

Something nicely useful I've just stumbled across whilst searching for a 
once-in-a-while used dusty command:

10 shortcuts to master bash
http://www.builderau.com.au/program/linux/print.htm?TYPE=story&AT=339279043-339028299t-320002022c


To that I'll add:

For when you run a very long command and you wish to do something else 
with that terminal in the meantime, you can send the running job to the 
"background" with:

ctl-z (Sends the job to sleep, bash displays a job number)
bg job_number (Continues running the job in the background. eg: "bg 1" 
for job number 1)

Carry on as before. Note that any terminal output from the backgrounded 
job will be interspersed with whatever it is that you're doing.

Note that there is also a utility called "screen":
http://www.rackaid.com/resources/linux-tutorials/general-tutorials/using-screen


Anyone still use the commandline?! :-p


:-)

Cheers,
Martin

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