From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 11:07:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B040A16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.solid-state-logic.com (mail.solid-state-logic.com [193.117.244.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229BD43D5C for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinh@solid-state-logic.com) Received: from sol.solid-state-logic.com ([10.1.1.101] helo=solid-state-logic.com) by soloman.solid-state-logic.com with smtp (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CWC2Q-000HSt-LA; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:18 +0000 Received: from [10.1.4.197] (martinh.solid-state-logic.com) by solid-state-logic.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19963; Mon, 22 Nov 04 11:07:18 GMT Message-Id: <41A1C865.30308@solid-state-logic.com> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:17 +0000 From: Martin Hepworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Nikolas Britton , freebsd-questions References: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <41A1C433.90406@nbritton.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Solid State Logic Ltd for more information X-Solid-State-Logic-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: martinh@solid-state-logic.com Subject: Re: Job Control X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:07:26 -0000 Nikolas Presumably you've also nohup -ed the background job too....:-) anyway have a look at 'screen' to give you virtual terminals that you drop out of and back into when you want to. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 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? > > > 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? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean. **********************************************************************