Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Name

bg

Synopsis

                     bg [jobIDs]

Put the current job or the jobIDs in the background.

Example

To place a time-consuming process in the background, you might begin with:

4% nroff -ms report Ctrl-Z

and then issue any one of the following:

5% bg
5% bg %       
                     Current job
5% bg %1      
                     Job number 1
5% bg %nr     
                     Match initial string nroff
5% % &