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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:17 +0000
From:      Martin Hepworth <martinh@solid-state-logic.com>
To:        Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Job Control
Message-ID:  <41A1C865.30308@solid-state-logic.com>
In-Reply-To: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org>
References:  <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org>

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Nikolas

Presumably you've also nohup -ed the background job too....:-)

anyway have a look at 'screen' to give you virtual terminals that you 
drop out of and back into when you want to.


--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Lets say I put a job in the background and then exit the shell (csh) and 
> then open another shell, how do I get that background possess back into 
> the foreground in the new shell?
> 
> 
> Also:
> 
> %ll
> drwxr-xr-x   2 nbritton  nbritton  -  512 Nov 22 04:40 test/
> -rw-r--r--       1 nbritton  nbritton  -      0 Nov 22 04:40 test.tgz
> %cd t*
> t*: Ambiguous.
> %cd test.tgz
> test.tgz: Not a directory.
> %
> 
> So whens is it possible to cd into a file or is cd really that stupid?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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