reptyr is a command-line tool to reparent a running program to a new terminal
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Is there a way to reptyr a make process or any process with subprocesses?
Consider the following Makefile.
all:
yes
If I run make and suspend using Ctrl-Z, and then start screen or tmux, followed by an attempt to reptyr, I get the following error.
$ reptyr 5328
[-] Process 5329 (yes) shares 5328's process group.…
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Is it possible to add a process to the job list in bash (e.g. to reverse "disown")?
If I disown a job in bash and change my mind, can I undo it somehow ?
If so, taking it further, is it possible to bring an arbitrary process under job control (an acceptable restriction would be that I own the process) ?
And, finally, would this…
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Screen reptyring screen
Having recently discovered reptyr, my first action was to do everything I could to break it. This included reptyring screen into a screen session as follows:
$ screen
My zshrc cats some stuff here.
$ reptyr $(pgrep screen)
I thought that this…
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Attach tmux to pty after reptyr?
I've got reptyr to "open a new pty" by doing:
reptyr -L 7969
where 7969 is the PID of rabbitmq-server.
The output of reptyr is
Opened a new pty: /dev/pts/25
but how do I attach tmux to that pty?
Thanks in advance :)
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how to put an existing process into an interactive shell's foreground
Say I started a long running process with nohup. As predicted, I close the current shell session. I open a new one and then I would like to add the still running process to the foreground (or to the background of the current shell's job control,…
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How to replace program running in graphical terminal with another program?
Lets say I have top or some ncurses program running in a graphical terminal, and from outside this terminal I'd like to execute a command, that would replace top with another program of my choosing.
I imagine there to be a generic approach to this,…
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