Screen a running process

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Mar 15, 202617218 views

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Sometimes I forget to run a program under a screen session and can't stop it in the middle, and I know it's going to take long. Is there a way to screen an already running process without restarting it?

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Found this answer on serverfault from earl: However, for your actual problem, there's another thing you could try: after having launched your job from the terminal, background it by typing ctrl-z and then . After that, detach the job from it's paren…

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Screen a running process

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Fix for: Screen a running process

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