Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: Run_command

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<u><i><span style="color: red;">Move Running Command to Background in Linux</span></i></u></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For example you are taking a backup of large number of files, You have started command on terminal, But after mid of this task you think that this is taking longer time and you have some other pending tasks like below:</span></div>
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<li><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 28px;"><a href="http://www.hackthesec.co.in/2016/02/how-to-run-command-in-background-on-linux.html" target="_blank">How To Run Command In Background on Linux</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now press <red style="color: red;"><b>CTRL + Z</b></red> to pause the current running command on terminal.</span></div>
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CTRL + Z

[1]+  Stopped          tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now type <red>bg</red> command on terminal, This will start last paused command in background by appending & in command.</span></div>
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[1]+ tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log &</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">List Running Commands in Background</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To list all jobs running in background use jobs command. It will show all running commands with their job id.</span></div>
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[1]+  Running                 tar czf random-file.tar.gz /var/log &</span><span style="font-size: 0.9em;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Move Background Commands to Foreground (Terminal)</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, If you need to any background jobs to move to foreground. Use <b><red>fg</red> command</b> with job id and this will move background command with that job id to terminal. Job id can be found using jobs command as showing in above example.</span></div>
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How to Move Running Command to Background in Linux

Move Running Command to Background in Linux For example you are taking a backup of large number of files, You have started command on ...