[SOLVED] moving a job between terminals

bamdad · 09-14-2010, 08:44 AM

hi everybody,

i'm not at all a newbie, but this has been a mystery to me in the last 10 years, since no FAQ/tutorial/anything about UNIX CLI seems to talk about it.

so what i'd like to do, is start a job (e.g. wget stuff, which takes a long time) on tty1, background it, and foreground it on tty2. or start it on my server via ssh, background it, log out, and foregroud it when i log back in.

i know how to bg and fg stuff, but that only works while the shell is running.

is there a way?

thanks,
bamdad

pwc101 · 09-14-2010, 08:45 AM

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935

bamdad · 09-14-2010, 08:49 AM

exactly what i was looking for. thank you. thread marked as solved.

pwc101 · 09-14-2010, 08:50 AM

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