Background applications

Penguin666 · 03-13-2004, 01:46 PM

When you are connecting to your Linux box from a ssh client, how do you get back the applications that you have running in the background.

For example, at the prompt I can type the following:
# top &
(and then)
# pstree &

How do I switch between each program that is running in the b/g?

I hope this is clear??

What is this whole process called as well?

Thank you.
Penguin

slakmagik · 03-13-2004, 06:06 PM

I know nothing about ssh but I think you want 'fg' and 'jobs' - check the bash man page for JOB CONTROL. Basically, simply, 'fg' will get you your last one and 'jobs' will show what's what and 'fg %foo' will bring job number foo back.

Or I could be barking up the wrong tree.