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Answer by glenn jackman for How to compose next command while previous is...

You can throw the currently-running command into the background with: Ctrl-Z to suspend the process, and bg to resume it in the background. Then you have your prompt back and you can start typing the...

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Answer by mk_gocs for How to compose next command while previous is executing?

You have two choices: The screen utility, though it doesn't ship with some Linux distros. It's not included by default in Solaris (Unix) either. For example, on Centos: yum install screen Here's a...

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How to compose next command while previous is executing?

While working in bash (usually with git), what often happens to me is that I start some command and while that command is executing (which could take a while), I want to start composing the next...

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