| Stephen Gran on 30 Jan 2009 08:46:26 -0800 |
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:25:14AM -0500, Bill East said: > So I'm messing around and I fat-finger: > > root@flows:/etc# grep ETH0 & > > Sure enough: > root@flows:/etc# ps > PID TTY TIME CMD > 10903 pts/3 00:00:00 bash > 10906 pts/3 00:00:00 grep > 10912 pts/3 00:00:00 ps > > So now I've got a process running grep, looking for input like (as my > favorite musician says) > "like Bernie in his dream > A displaced person in some foreign border town > Waiting for a train part hope part myth > While the station changes hands" > > (sorry) and I get to wondering, what could I do with this? Could I > potentially pipe output to it, or is it unreachable? I guess it would > still write to stdout, so anything it did output would still come up > on my tty. Are there any tips or tricks for dealing with forked > processes, or should I just kill -9 it and get on with my work? You're looking for 'help fg' and the JOB CONTROL section of the bash man page. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "I'm not a god, I was misquoted." -- | | steve@lobefin.net | Lister, Red Dwarf | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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