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.\"  Copyright 1989 AT&T  Copyright (c) 1994 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.
.TH suspend 1 "15 Apr 1994" "SunOS 5.11" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
suspend \- shell built-in function to halt the current shell
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SS "sh"
.LP
.nf
\fBsuspend\fR 
.fi

.SS "csh"
.LP
.nf
\fBsuspend\fR 
.fi

.SS "ksh"
.LP
.nf
\fBsuspend\fR 
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS "sh"
.sp
.LP
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
.SS "csh"
.sp
.LP
Stop the shell in its tracks, much as if it had been sent a stop signal with \fB^Z\fR. This is most often used to stop shells started by \fBsu\fR.
.SS "ksh"
.sp
.LP
Stops the execution of the current shell (but not if it is the login shell).
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Availabilitysystem/core-os
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBcsh\fR(1), \fBkill\fR(1), \fBksh\fR(1), \fBsh\fR(1), \fBsu\fR(1M), \fBattributes\fR(5)