SUSPEND(1)

✨ SUSPEND(1) ✨

okay so this is suspend from fish-shell, and honestly? it's giving "one job, does it perfectly" 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

suspend — literally just suspends the current shell, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

suspend [--force]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So suspend suspends the execution of the current shell by sending it a SIGTSTP signal, which hands control right back to the controlling process. iconic behavior, no notes 🔥

Later on you can bring it back to life by sending it a SIGCONT. it's giving nap time then wake up bestie 😭

Now here's the responsible part — and ngl this is important — in order to prevent suspending a shell that doesn't have a controlling process, it will not suspend the shell if it's a login shell. yeah. it said "not today" 🙈

That requirement gets bypassed if the --force option is given, or if the shell is not interactive. so --force is your main character energy override button 👑

fr fr, only reach for --force when you actually mean it — the login-shell guard exists for a reason 🫶

💀 Copyright 💀

fish-shell developers

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 🍓✨ — this lil gem comes from fish-shell version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026, mwah 💜🧚