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^Z
Typing ^Z in a shell, while a job is running in the foreground, will suspend that job. It simply stops running, but its state is remembered.
$ mybigprogram ^Z [1]+ Stopped mybigprogram $
Now you’re ready to type bg to put the command into the background, or fg to resume it in the foreground.
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