Your Question: How Do I Pause a Linux Terminal?
Contents Press Control + Z. This Will Suspend the Process and Return You to a Shell. You Can Do Other Things Now If You Want or You Can Return to the...
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Press Control + Z . This will suspend the process and return you to a shell. You can do other things now if you want or you can return to the background process by entering % followed by Return .
What is Pause command in Linux?
pause() causes the calling process (or thread) to sleep until a signal is delivered that either terminates the process or causes the invocation of a signal-catching function.
How do you pause terminal output?
2 Answers
- press control S to stop output, control Q to resume (this is called XON/XOFF)
- redirect your output to a pager such as less , e.g., strace date | less.
- redirect your output to a file, e.g., strace -o foo date , and browse it later.
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