Expand shell globs using 'ctrl-z'

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Sunday, November 5. 2006

Expand shell globs using 'ctrl-z'

Just noticed a semi useful feature of the CSH shell (shells in general? not tested it) whilst running 'rm -rf *' in a directory. Got a bit paranoid I was doing something silly (running the command as root), so hit 'ctrl-z' to put the process into the background and the '*' part was expanded in the job control list:


CODE:
[11:21:24] root@users /usr/local/www/web/torrentflux.munk.me.uk# rm -rf *
^Z
[1]  + Suspended                     rm -rf TF_BitTornado adodb downloads images language mods searchEngines themes


Yay. Useful tip #341 you'll probably never use but at some point in the future think mmm... now where did I read about that thing about this thing...
Posted by munk in Shell at 11:22 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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ctrl + z may be great but Im not sure how to go back... it says suspended and the process is still shown in PS anyone know how to go back to the program you suspended?
#1 Nate on 2009-02-19 19:44 (Reply)
Type in 'fg' on the commandline to put the last 'backgrounded' process back to the foreground (fg). See the man page for 'sh' or 'csh' for more info (look for 'Jobs').
#1.1 Jez (Homepage) on 2009-02-19 21:16 (Reply)

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