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Loading and Quitting Stopped Jobs in OS X Terminal

Monday, 11 April 2011

When you run a command in the Terminal, say man cat, you can press CTRL-z to send it to the background, where it keeps running.

If you then try and close your shell by entering exit, you get the message: There are stopped jobs.

You can either type exit to close the process anyway, or close the jobs by doing the following:

  1. List open jobs: type jobs and press Return.
  2. Return to a job after seeing its ID with the jobs command: type fg 5 where ‘5’ is the job number and press Return.
  3. Quit a running job by typing q.
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