How to put a job in background & bring it to foreground?
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Answer / naveen badam
To run a job in back ground type & at the end of the command
To bring the process to the foreground type fg pid
Pid u can find out by typing jobs cmd
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Answer / kishore devkate
we can put a job in background by putin & symbol at the end
of the line on the command promt.
example:
#cp -r /var/* /tmp &
We can pull the background job in the foreground by fg
command and pid, before that we have to get the process ID
how to get the process ID see below example.
Example:
#jobs
1+ cp -r /var/* /tmp &
now u can get the job ID then u can bring the job in
foreground see below example
Example:
#fg 1
cp -r /var/* /tmp ----now its show like this
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Answer / srinivas kalvacherla
Consider one ex.
#cp -r /etc/* /directory &
'&' it takes to background
#ps -ef
check the process that is running in the background
#%cp
to bring to foreground.
Regards
kalvacherla.srinivas@gmail.com
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