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I have a terminal connected to an external machine through ssh and have a process running in it. Is it possible move the execution to the background, so that I can close the ssh connection without the need to kill it? If so how?
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You could move the running process into a background and then run other commands. To do this, you would first type ^z (hold control key and press z). That suspends the process. Then type bg to put the process in the background.
Use bg to Send Running Commands to the Background You can easily send these commands to the background by hitting the Ctrl + Z keys and then using the bg command. Ctrl + Z stops the running process, and bg takes it to the background. You can view a list of all background tasks by typing jobs in the terminal.
We can also send a foreground process to the background using the CTRL + Z shortcut. This shortcut will suspend the process; then, you can use the command bg to send it to the background.
Press control + Z, which will pause it and send it to the background. Then enter bg to continue it's running in the background.
Alternatively, if you put a & at the end of the command to run it in the background from the start.
This will just make it run in the background and once you log out it will still be killed. In order to keep it running after logout you will need to "disown" the process with disown -h, so that the shell doesn't count it among your processes needing to be killed on logout. See this post for more details.
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