Could I get some help here? I'm running putty and I am not to keen on linux terminology just yet. I did some googling and came across the following

^Z
bg %1
disown -h %1

but I'm not quite sure how to implement this.
Is it simple hit Ctrl+Z to pause the process, then type 'bg %1' into putty, hit enter, then the same for 'disown -h %1'?

Also I would think I should put the process number or name somewhere. Where would that go if my hunch is correct?

e:\ the thing is I expect my program to take a few days to run and I don't want to leave my computer up the whole time. That's the program related.

This post was edited by ass666 on Dec 19 2012 05:18pm

just run it under nohup then you can sign off putty

I read about that and my understanding is that I can only do that if I have yet to start the program. Is that correct?

If so then I'd rather not do that since my program has already started running and is about 7 hours into running.

use screen

$ screen

should load up a new shell inside a screen session

while inside the screen session, run whatever command it is that you want

$ foo
Running foo, this is going to take 3 days....


From there, hit ctrl+a ctrl+d to get out of the screen back to your normal shell, and exit.

To return to the screen, in the normal shell, type:
$ screen -r



Google some how-tos and stuff if you want to learn more about using screen.

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Oh, and yes, you can't move an existing shell session into a screen session. You will have to restart the job.

This post was edited by irimi on Dec 19 2012 07:44pm

this i dont do anything outside screen really. dont see why anyone would...

typo in the above - it's just ctrl+a and then d, not ctrl+d.