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why do background jobs hang depending on the size of the output?
I had some stress-testing scripts that were running in parallel and they would hang after finishing and would wait for a RETURN keystroke to exit. After investigating I discovered that it is not ...
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Can I transfer running process from dead ssh [duplicate]
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How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell?
I have started (as expected) a long copy process from ssh shell (putty) which died due to ...
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How to supress the display of previous job details?
When I run a process in the background the process ID gets displayed in the command prompt. For example:
$ gvim 1 &
[3] 9584
Now when I run another process the state of the previous one also ...
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How can I kill and wait for background processes to finish in a shell script when I Ctrl+C it?
I'm trying to set up a shell script so that it runs background processes, and when I Ctrlc the shell script, it kills the children, then exits.
The best that I've managed to come up with is this. It ...
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How to recover a backgrounded job from a previous shell? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I disown a running process and associate it to a new screen shell?
I launched a command that lasts a long time.
I had to disconnect so I moved it in the ...
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3answers
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Bash wait for jobs and limit job count [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Four tasks in parallel… how do I do that?
Suppose a loop invoking a command
grep -v '#' < files.m3u | sed 's/\\\\/\/\//g' | sed 's/\\/\//g' | while read line
...
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2answers
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Basic job control: stop a job, add a job onto the stack, and `fg`
Job control is probably my favorite thing about Linux. I find myself, often, starting a computationally demanding process that basically renders a computer unusable for up to days at a time, and being ...
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safely killing a background process
I'm writing data to a pipe in a parent process. The parent process creates a background job that reads data from the pipe & write it to the screen & to a log file.
How can I know when to kill ...
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Non-blocking bash command
Let's say I have a bash script with the following:
#!/bin/sh
gedit
rm *.temp
When I execute it using sh ./test.sh, gedit pops-up but the rm part does not run until after I close gedit.
I want the ...
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How can I close a terminal without killing its children (without running `screen` first)?
sometimes I run an app in the gnome-terminal, but then I suddenly have to restart gnome or something. I guess the answer to the question is also useful then I want to disconnect from SSH where ...
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1answer
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Background task finished notification syntax
Last night, before abandoning my computer for the evening, I started a bunch of compiler jobs so they'd be ready in the morning, using make -f alpha.mak &>alpha.out &. When I came back and ...
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1answer
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ant script stops, waiting for input when run in background
I'm running an ant (Java build tool) script on CentOS 5.5 that execs another java process. When I run the ant script in the background:
ant -f myfile.xml &> foo.out &
The forked process' ...
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Difference between nohup, disown and &
What is the difference between
$ nohup foo
and
$ foo &
and
$ foo &
$ disown
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2answers
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How to suspend and resume proccesses
In the bash terminal I can hit Control+Z to suspend any running proccess... then I can type fg to resume the proccess.
Is it possible to suspend a process if I only have it's PID? And if so, what ...
