stop suspends a child process from executing	KornShell Built-in
	SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DIAGNOSTICS PORTABILITY NOTE SEE ALSO

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SYNOPSIS

stop [pid | job-identifier]

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DESCRIPTION

stop suspends a child process from executing by sending a SIGSTOP signal to the process identified by either pid or job-identifier. stop is a built-in alias defined as

alias stop="kill -STOP"

Valid pids and job-identifiers can be listed using the built-in jobs command or the ps command.

job-identifier

is a decimal number which identifies the process. When you use the job-identifier as an argument to the command, preface the number with %.

pid

is the process ID that the shell reports when a process is started with &. You can also find the pid using the ps or jobs command.

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DIAGNOSTICS

Possible exit status values are:

0

Successful completion.

1

The pid or job-identifier is not found or invalid.

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PORTABILITY

POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.

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NOTE

This is an alias built into the MKS KornShell.

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SEE ALSO

Commands:

alias, jobs, sh,