Is there a keyboard key combination that I can use to pause a program running in the terminal? In case it matters, I don't intend to run anything else inside that terminal while the program is paused. I just want to pause the program execution, and resume it later. How can I do this?
Gnome Terminal – Pause a Long Running Program in Terminal
execute-commandgnome-terminal
Best Answer
Press Control+Z.
This will suspend the process and return you to a shell. You can do other things now if you want or you can return to the background process by entering
%
followed by Return.Note that if you're doing this to something that needs to be responsive, you're going to tank the system, but if it's just something like a
nano
instance, everything should be okay.