How to change process status?

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On 7/21/08, EdwardKing <zhangsc at neusoft.com> wrote:
> I make a process running in background,like follows:
> $./a.out &
>
> I want to know how to change a.out from backgound to foreground and how to stop it?

with "fg" and the number the shell returns after you placed the
process in the background. Let's say:

$./a.out &
[1] 27537

fg %1

-- Here the shell will bring the process to the foreground --

Now you can stop it with Ctrl-c for instance.


Cheers

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