Does anyone know if it is possible (and howto, of course) to move a job from one shell to another one?

The situation is that I would like to be able to start a job on my home computer while at work, then logout of that shell. Then when I get home, I'd like to open a new shell and have the job be running in the foreground in the new shell.

Thanks.

My gut reaction is that this is excessively convoluted. I think you can do something like start a job in background and later bring it to foreground. I do not believe you can move a running process to another shell**.

Start by looking up background processes and see if that "clicks" for you.


**All processes have parent processes--in this case, a shell instance. You can't change your parents, and I doubt if Linux can either...

It's quite possible and even easy

Screen command will do what you want. Run screen, start process, detach the screen with CTRL+A D. To re-attach run screen -x. You can also have several processes running under screen, create a new process with CTRL+A C and use CTRL+A with numbers to switch between running processes. Man screen. It doesn't really "move the process to other shell", but the effect is the same. The process will keep running (but out of sight) even if you log out.

I always have a screen running at one of the machines of my university. Keeps me connected to irc and present on the channels I want to be present at all times. When I re-attach the screen I'm also able to see what's been going on on those channels

Thanks alienDog! screen is exactly what I was looking for. I will test it out tonight.

Regards,

Mark