How do I exit a process in terminal without killing it?

Question

I created a script to run my react build on port 5555

and on running it, I get

I want to quit this process without killing the server.

How can I do it?

Output with &

How about disowning a process or putting job in background? – Kulfy Jan 31 '21 at 14:24 — Kulfy, Jan 31 '21 at 14:24
You could also use my Favorite! screen detached. – EODCraft Staff Jan 31 '21 at 14:30 — EODCraft Staff, Jan 31 '21 at 14:30
@EODCraftStaff how to use it – Parag Katoch Jan 31 '21 at 14:34 — Parag Katoch, Jan 31 '21 at 14:34

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '21 at 14:24

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What you are looking for is sending the current foreground job to the background. You can simply achieve this by:

suspending the current job. [CTRL-Z] then,

send the job to the background. bg

To see if the the job has being successfully send to the background, run: jobs

Another method would be starting the process in the background. To achieve this, include an ampersand "&" at the end of the command. Example; if my script name is process1, I will run it using ./process1 &.

Success!

answered Jan 31 '21 at 14:24

Justech

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can you tell me how can I add that [CTRL-Z] in my script...and I updated the question with the output of the command with & – Parag Katoch Jan 31 '21 at 14:32
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@preIdiot That's the STDOUT you got. If you don't want to see that, you can redirect to /dev/null. Try running homepage &>/dev/null. – Kulfy Jan 31 '21 at 14:35
Just add ampersand "&" after the word build – Justech Jan 31 '21 at 14:36
yeah...this is what I want, thanks!! @Kulfy – Parag Katoch Jan 31 '21 at 14:38

How do I exit a process in terminal without killing it?

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