Bring process to 'foreground'?

Question

I am using an SSH client to connect to a Solaris server. I had a process running but my connection disconnected. I reconnected and can see the process running when I do ps -al. How can I bring this process to the 'foreground'? I want to see its output.

Wow your question so good. But i would like to know how you started job ? — Raja G, Feb 29 '16 at 04:55
Not sure it works on Solaris, but the question was answered here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31824/how-to-attach-terminal-to-detached-process — Ralph Rönnquist, Feb 29 '16 at 05:04

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 29 '16 at 07:06

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You can immediately re-activate your most recent backgrounded task by typing:

fg

If you have multiple backgrounded tasks, you can see the available jobs by typing:

jobs

You can then bring any of the tasks to the foreground by using the index in the first column with a percentage sign:

fg %

for example:

output of jobs command shows the process job number

[1]+  Stopped                 ssh username@some_host
[2]   Stopped                 ssh username@another_host

Bring any of the tasks to the foreground by using the index:

fg%2

answered Feb 29 '16 at 07:06

msc

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How do you send a task to the background? – CJ7 Feb 29 '16 at 09:51
@CJ7 - Using 'bg &' command – msc Feb 29 '16 at 10:25
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This only works for processes started from the current shell, attached to the same TTY. The OP's question implies that he disconnected and reconnected from the host. The shell bg/fg commands probably won't be sufficient in this case. – Kenster Feb 29 '16 at 16:25

Bring process to 'foreground'?

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