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Re: detach a process and bring into GNU screen

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: detach a process and bring into GNU screen
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:45:37 -0700
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On Apr 21,  9:22pm, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
}
} Forgetting running naked grep in nohup with stdout redirected to a  
} file, I wonder whether zsh can help me to put the process into  
} background, detach it somehow, and reattach in a GNU screen window?   

Zsh can't help you directly with this, but there's a program named
"retty" ( http://pasky.or.cz/~pasky/dev/retty/ ) which does something
of the sort.  See the list of bugs on that page for some reasons why
shells generally don't attempt to support this.

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- detach a process and bring into GNU screen
  - From: Alexy Khrabrov

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