\section suspend suspend - suspend the current shell \subsection suspend-synopsis Synopsis \fish{synopsis} suspend [--force] \endfish \subsection suspend-description Description `suspend` suspends execution of the current shell by sending it a SIGTSTP signal, returning to the controlling process. It can be resumed later by sending it a SIGCONT. In order to prevent suspending a shell that doesn't have a controlling process, it will not suspend a the shell if it is a login shell or if `$SHLVL` is less `$suspend_minimum_SHLVL`, which defaults to three. This test is skipped if the `--force` option is given or the shell is not interactive.