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%% &
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