how to foreground after backgrounding and closing shell?

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I secure-copied (scp) a file from one box to another. I ctrl-z, I
backgrounded, and then quit/exited the parent shell (konsole). I can
see the job is still running with “ps aux” but I have no access to it
anymore. I can’t view the ‘progress bar’ to see … well … the
PROGRESS!

Can I foreground it again somehow? I googled - but nothing.

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use the fg command to bring it back to the forground

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You can’t reconnect it to a terminal again.

Next time you want to do some long operation but you also want to watch
the progress at intervals from different terminals, have a look at the
program “screen”. It starts off a terminal session with a CLI shell and
you can detach the session and reattach later. Something like this

Code:

$ screen

in new session now

$ some long command
Ctrl-A D

session detached, back at original shell

$

Sometime later, from -anywhere-:

Code:

$ screen -r

reattached to floating session

your command may or may not have finished

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