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Suspend and edit previous single line commands

Say I want to modify the latter of some concatenated command line options, is it possible without killing the first command? Specifically I have compile and run scripts executed thusly: > compile ...
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Chain commands with Control + C interrupt

I am trying to execute a program which loops indefinitely, and so must be forcibly interrupted. After executing the program, I want to delete it. I can do it in several steps: ./MyProg Control + C ...
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Application in terminal still running but not directly accessible [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to suspend and bring a background process to foreground I have kind of an odd problem which I haven't encountered before. Here's what I did: I started an ...
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How to stop a infinite running process (ztail) started by a ssh session after that session is closed

I have a peculiar problem. My server supports multiple ssh session simultaneously, so that multiple admins can manage (via command line interface) it simultaneously. We have a command which calls ...
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How do I exit or cancel a bad bash command?

I expect to get some flak for this, but I can't find the answer anywhere. It seems like it should be so obvious. Sometimes, when I type a bad command in a bash terminal, the cursor just jumps down to ...
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How to kill a process with a single command?

I want to kill a process, after finding the id in a single step. I currently use these two commands: pidof <name> kill <#number_which_is_result_of_command> How can I write a single ...
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How to create a cron which finds/kills/clears old puppet runs?

I am a new user of bash/cron, and I was given a task to create a cron which finds/kill/ and clears old puppet runs that were not successfully installed. The more help the better, but I am more or less ...
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How to soft kill gui applications via terminal?

Is there a way to close a GUI application in friendly "please quit yourself now" way, without graphical access to the applications window? For example, if Gnome/X display crashes to black, I'd like ...