man pages section 1: User Commands

suspend(1)

Name

suspend - shell built-in function to halt the current shell

Synopsis

sh

suspend 

csh

suspend 

ksh

suspend 

Description

sh

Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

csh

Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with ^Z. This is most often used to stop shells started by su.

ksh

Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/core-os

See Also

kill(1), sh(1), csh(1), ksh(1), attributes(7), su(8)