From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22501 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 15:57:53 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 11 Mar 1999 15:57:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 22284 invoked by alias); 11 Mar 1999 15:54:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 2214 Received: (qmail 22260 invoked from network); 11 Mar 1999 15:54:43 -0000 From: "Michael Barnes" Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 10:54:28 -0500 To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: redirecting stdio/stderr from a suspended then bged job Message-ID: <19990311105427.A6589@vt.edu> Mail-Followup-To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1us This has been bugging me for a while. How can I suspend a job that is taking longer than I expect and then put it in the background and then redirect stdio and/or stderr to a file (or /dev/null) ? example: wget http://slowserver/bigfile.tgz 1% done and its been 2 minutes ^Z zsh: 25317 suspended wget http://slowserver/bigfile.tgz bg %1 >/dev/null 2>&1 nope does not work that just redirects the output of bg not the job that was bged. Any suggestions? (besides using screen). Michael Barnes