Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:07:02 -0800 From: cape canaveral <somniosus@gmail.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Job Control Message-ID: <f2f44cff041122030715498c50@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org> References: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org>
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:49:23 -0600, Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> 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? > The program you're looking for is called 'screen'. > 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? > Depends on your shell, or version of cd I suppose. bash-3.00$ ls -la | grep test drwxr-xr-x 2 aaron wheel 512 Nov 22 05:15 test -rw-r--r-- 1 aaron wheel 22 Nov 22 05:22 test1 bash-3.00$ cd t* bash-3.00$ pwd /usr/home/aaron/test But if I try and run the same command in csh I get: $ cd t* cd: too many arguments -Aaron
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