[Wolves] Gah... Blonde moment

[David Goodwin]

chris ball wrote:
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> Whilst at work, I opened ran wget &, and hoped it would still be working
> when I got home.
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> I'm now home, and I can see it with 'ps', what's the command to bring it
> back to the shell (if there is one?)
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fg and bg (foreground/background) are probably what you're after (as 
well as "jobs").

However, what you describe doesn't sound right - you can't (as far as I 
know) attach a process to a different terminal than the one you started 
it on (unless someone knows how to handle stdout/stderr and other file 
descriptors?). The only way (I know) to do this is to run the command 
from within something like "screen" which allows you to disconnect and 
then reconnect again from different login sessions.

Hope that kind of makes sense,

thanks
David.



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