Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

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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:

➜ sleep 20   Command that simply waits 20 seconds
^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 sleep 20
➜

Now you’re ready to type bg to put the command into the background where it continues running, or fg to resume it in the foreground.