Moving foreground jobs to the background
As we saw in
``Killing a process'',
to move a foreground process to the background, press the suspend
key. The process is suspended and a message is displayed, as
follows:
[1] + Stopped sleep 30
To move a suspended job to the background, use the
bg(C)
command followed by a ``%'' symbol, then the PID, the job
number, or the command name. For example, to move the suspended
sleep process in the above example to the background, type
the following:
$ bg %sleep
The suspended process is then restarted in the background. A message
is displayed indicating this, as follows:
[1] sleep 30&
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