Re: have bg, fg, but lack stop

2009-12-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 05:48:44PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > kill %1 works for me. I've puzzled over this before, and I think part of the > trouble may be that 'jobspec' is not defined in bash(1) (v 3.29). Ok, I misunderstood the issue, stop vs kill. Ken -- ken.irv...@alaska.edu

Re: have bg, fg, but lack stop

2009-12-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:30:27AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Notice how I need two steps to stop this running job: > > $ jobs > [1]+ Running firefox & > $ fg > firefox > ^Z > [1]+ Stopped firefox > > As there is no > $ stop %1 > like command. kill %1 w

Re: have bg, fg, but lack stop

2009-12-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/19/09 9:30 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > As there is no > $ stop %1 > like command. alias stop='kill -s STOP' -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://cnswww

Re: have bg, fg, but lack stop

2009-12-19 Thread Jan Schampera
jida...@jidanni.org schrieb: > OK, never mind. Market demand too low to add... I rather think you could just define a stop()

have bg, fg, but lack stop

2009-12-19 Thread jidanni
Notice how I need two steps to stop this running job: $ jobs [1]+ Running firefox & $ fg firefox ^Z [1]+ Stopped firefox As there is no $ stop %1 like command. OK, I suppose I can use $ kill -s SIGSTOP %1 $ [1]+ Stopped firefox OK, never mind.