"pull" process/job into the background

Posted by Mustafa Ismail Mustafa on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
Published on 2011-01-17T18:56:12Z Indexed on 2011/01/17 19:55 UTC
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I know of terminating a command with & and then moving it into the background by pressing Ctrl-Z and then bg [pid], and I also know of nohup.

But say you started a process that turned out to take much longer than one expected, is there a way of pulling, so to speak, this process from another terminal screen into the background so that even if I log off from the server the process would continue?

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