Accidentally closed a Terminal window

Is there any way to recover the window if the process is still running?

MacBook1,1 (home) MacBook2,1 (work), Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 2, 2009 6:17 PM

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Jul 4, 2009 8:45 AM in response to rabbitdog

In most cases, when you close a window, any process running in that window (or, more technically, the shell) will terminate.

That's not always the case, but you usually have to go to extra lengths to make a process persist beyond the current shell session.

So the chances are that the process is no longer running anyway.

AFAIK, the screen suggestions will only work for a process that was launched via screen. You cannot attach to an arbitrary process.

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