Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Name

bg

Synopsis

    bg [jobIDs]

Put the current job or the jobIDs in the background. See the earlier section "Job Control.”

Example

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

    4% nroff -ms report | col > report.txtCTRL-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%% &