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Development Tools Console Foundations Processes Killing Processes

Posted by Jiaming Zhang
Jiaming Zhang
10,170 Points

How do you pause a process in Mac Terminal

I know that you can pause a process by using "ctrl + z" in Linux console but it does not work in Mac Terminal. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

2 Answers

ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points

Hi Jiaming!

What kind of process do you try to stop?

I've tried to stop the tail process on my Mac in Terminal app and it worked:

  1. Start a tail process: tailf -f some_file.txt
  2. Then press ctrl+z: [1]+ Stopped tail -f front-page.php
  3. Then you can see the list of process running in the background jobs -l
  4. To return the process to the foreground: fg 1 where 1 is a number of process from jobs -l list.
Jiaming Zhang
Jiaming Zhang
10,170 Points
Jiaming Zhang
Jiaming Zhang
10,170 Points

I realized that afterward.

I think the command (ctrl +d) simply does not work for nano but works for other programs.