December 2018
Beginner
320 pages
8h 57m
English
A program is started in the background by appending an ampersand (&) to the end of a command. On launching the program in the background, it displays a job ID (unique for the running session) and the PID of the background process, as shown in the following screenshot:

Use the jobs command to display the background jobs associated with the shell. The jobs command displays the job ID, state, and command name. If there is more the one background job, the default selection will have + in front of it, as shown in the following screenshot:
The fg command is used to bring a background job to the foreground using its ...
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