Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: k2.mikee.ath.cx: mikee set sender to mikee@mikee.ath.cx using -f Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:57:38 -0600 From: Mike To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: how to bring job to foreground? Message-ID: <20050222215738.GS20126@mikee.ath.cx> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The Math Forum X-IsSubscribed: yes On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Matt Wilkie might have said: > Hi, > > I just suspended a short commandline script to the background using ctrl-z > How do I bring it forward again? The bash prompt didn't come up after ctrl-z. > The script is: > > for dir in *; do tar czf $dir.tgz $dir;done > > If I open up another console I can see the processes are still active > using 'ps -a' > but the commands 'jobs, fg, bg' say there is nothing to control > > thanks in advance for your time, > > -- > -matt > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > $ fg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/