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suspend — Suspend the execution of the current shell. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/man

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Problem

How to use the suspend command: Suspend the execution of the current shell. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-suspend>.

Solution

suspend — Suspend the execution of the current shell. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-suspend>.

Suspend the current shell (useful for when you are in nested shells like su):

{{bash}} <Enter> suspend

Continue from suspension if suspend was used in a non-nested shell (run this in a separate terminal):

pkill -CONT {{bash}}

Force suspension even if this would lock you out of the system:

suspend -f

Code Snippets

Suspend the current shell (useful for when you are in nested shells like `su`)

{{bash}} <Enter> suspend

Continue from suspension if `suspend` was used in a non-nested shell (run this in a separate terminal)

pkill -CONT {{bash}}

Force suspension even if this would lock you out of the system

suspend -f

Context

tldr-pages: common/suspend

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