Job Control
Konrad Heuer
kheuer2 at gwdg.de
Mon Nov 22 03:04:00 PST 2004
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Lets say I put a job in the background and then exit the shell (csh) and
> then open another shell, how do I get that background possess back into
> the foreground in the new shell?
There's no way basic UNIX way to do that. Maybe you can find something in
the ports collection concerning saving and re-opening complete terminal
sessions.
> Also:
>
> %ll
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nbritton nbritton - 512 Nov 22 04:40 test/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nbritton nbritton - 0 Nov 22 04:40 test.tgz
> %cd t*
> t*: Ambiguous.
> %cd test.tgz
> test.tgz: Not a directory.
> %
>
> So whens is it possible to cd into a file or is cd really that stupid?
cd expects one and only one argument, so cd t* gives you a warning because
is ambiguous. Where is the problem? :-)
Regards
Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de
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