Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

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suspend

The built-in command suspend will suspend the current shell if possible, as if you’d typed ^Z to the shell itself. For instance, if you’ve run the sudo command to make an administrator shell (see Becoming the Superuser) and want to return to your original shell:

➜ whoami
smith
➜ sudo bash
Password: *******
# whoami                “#” is the superuser prompt
root
# suspend
[1]+  Stopped                 sudo bash
➜ whoami
smith