linux job control - kill a topped job

it is well known that when a process is running it can be stopped using ctrl-z

you can have in this way many stopped jobs, which you can see using the 'jobs' command

you can kill anyone of this jobs by issuing "kill %n", where n is the number of the job as listed by jobs...

fg put the job to foreground and activate the process again
jobs display your stopped/backgrounded jobs
kill %1 send signal TERM to the job numbered %1 in the job list

Janis

taken from: http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/842834/what_is_the_command_to_kill_suspended_job.html

interesting command in linux, nohup a posteriori

i found today this interesting command: i think it works like "nohup" if it's used with the option -h

taken from an excellent linux guide:

disown
disown [options] [jobIDs]
Let job run, but disassociate it from the shell. By default, do not even list the job as an active job; commands like jobs and fg will no longer recognize it. When -h is specified, the job is recognized but simply is kept from being killed when the shell dies.

Options

-a

Act on all jobs.

-h

Do not pass a SIGHUP signal received by the shell on to the job.