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Jul 29, 2022 at 16:29 comment added Rick Why do you mean by it may remain visible there, but terminated ? It's not terminated but stopped/paused. I tried kill -STOP and it behaves exactly like kill -TSTP for shell jobs.
S May 13, 2022 at 8:03 history suggested Manuel Jordan CC BY-SA 4.0
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S Feb 14, 2017 at 16:02 history suggested Mark Amery CC BY-SA 3.0
fixed a grammar error; removed reference to other answer from first sentence (it's a bit odd now that the answer is below this one)
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S Jan 11, 2017 at 20:37 history suggested Mark Lakata CC BY-SA 3.0
Changed confusing wording. end is not the same as stop.
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Dec 27, 2016 at 8:15 comment added AAAfarmclub See also: [stackoverflow.com/questions/11886812/…
May 2, 2016 at 22:58 comment added Karoh Also useful to note that you can reference the [pid] value by using the % symbol and then the job number (one that you can find by running jobs). So you'd go: kill -TSTP %1
S May 1, 2016 at 17:06 history suggested user2943160 CC BY-SA 3.0
Move all knowledge related to answer into actual answer (rather than keeping info in the comments) and add my experience with processes being terminated, but remaining in job table.
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S Feb 12, 2016 at 10:50 history edited schily CC BY-SA 3.0
replace non-standard anmd nonportable kill command line by correct one
S Feb 12, 2016 at 10:50 history suggested Jose Gómez CC BY-SA 3.0
Updated response with the change suggested in the comments
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Sep 15, 2010 at 22:38 comment added Steve Burdine @ephemient I tried SIGTSTP, I saw what you were saying about it cleaning up the terminal. Thanks for the explanation of SIGTSTP, alawys good to learn new things :)
Sep 15, 2010 at 22:21 vote accept Stefan
Sep 15, 2010 at 21:55 comment added ephemient Unless there are other reasons for it, I would prefer SIGTSTP over SIGSTOP, as some applications do handle SIGTSTP specially. For example, if scp is showing a progress bar, SIGTSTP will cause it to clean up the terminal mode before suspending, but if you send SIGSTOP, it will not have a chance to do so.
Sep 15, 2010 at 21:33 history answered Steve Burdine CC BY-SA 2.5