How can I resume a stopped job in Linux?
The command fg
is what you want to use. You can also give it a job number if there are more than one stopped jobs.
The general job control commands in Linux are:
- jobs - list the current jobs
- fg - resume the job that's next in the queue
- fg %[number] - resume job [number]
- bg - Push the next job in the queue into the background
- bg %[number] - Push the job [number] into the background
- kill %[number] - Kill the job numbered [number]
- kill -[signal] %[number] - Send the signal [signal] to job number [number]
- disown %[number] - disown the process(no more terminal will be owner), so command will be alive even after closing the terminal.
That's pretty much all of them. Note the % infront of the job number in the commands - this is what tells kill you're talking about jobs and not processes.
You can also type %<process_name>
; i.e., you hit Ctrl-Z in emacs, then you can type %emacs
in the console and bring it back to the foreground.