can i pause the command execution

[hq4ever]

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i started

find /

now it goes throw all of my hard drives can i somehow using my keyboard "pause" the command while it executes & then return later and continue it without starting the search all over again ?

[Kylixen]

Um. "find /" isn't going to do much of anything. However, you can redirect the output to a file. You need to figure out how to use find first.

[solman66]

yes. You can pause a job and resume it later.

ctrl-z to pause.

this creates a "stopped" job.
You can then use %jobnumber to resume.

you can use the command

jobs

to list your stopped jobs

so for example you did

 find /

your stuff starts scrolling... you get tired and need to do something else...

ctrl-z
[1]+  Stopped                 find /

1 is the job number.
just to be sure you can

jobs
[1]+  Stopped                 find /

Now you finished your other stuff and you want to resume

%1

and the scrolling begins again

[hq4ever]

exactly! thank's a ton

[dt2]

That's very helpful, solman66. I hadn't known about the %jobnumber trick. I've been using

fg

to bring a stopped job back into the "foreground." Is one method better than the other?

[Dolda2000]

I, too, have been using fg. However, I think they're more or less equivalent. Instead of "%job", you can just run "fg job". It's probably synonymous.