How can I resume a stopped job in Linux?
Solution 1:
The command fg is what you want to use. You can also give it a job number if there are more than one stopped jobs.
Solution 2:
The general job control commands in Linux are:
- jobs - list the current jobs
- fg - resume the job that's next in the queue
- fg %[number] - resume job [number]
- bg - Push the next job in the queue into the background
- bg %[number] - Push the job [number] into the background
- kill %[number] - Kill the job numbered [number]
- kill -[signal] %[number] - Send the signal [signal] to job number [number]
- disown %[number] - disown the process(no more terminal will be owner), so command will be alive even after closing the terminal.
That's pretty much all of them. Note the % infront of the job number in the commands - this is what tells kill you're talking about jobs and not processes.
Solution 3:
You can also type %<process_name>; i.e., you hit Ctrl-Z in emacs, then you can type %emacs in the console and bring it back to the foreground.
Solution 4:
Just to add to the other answers, bash lets you skip the fg if you specify a job number.
For example, these are equivalent and resume the latest job:
%
%%
fg
fg %
These resume job #4:
%4
fg 4
Solution 5:
If you didn't launch it from current terminal, use ps aux | grep <process name> to find the process number (pid), then resume it with:
kill -SIGCONT <pid>
(Despite the name, kill is simply a tool to send a signal to the process, allowing processes to communicate with each other. A "kill signal" is only one of many standard signals.)
Bonus tip: wrap the first character of the process name with [] to prevent the grep command itself appearing in the results. e.g. to find emacs process, use ps aux | grep [e]macs