jobs / fg / bg

SafeJob control

jobs

Suspend with Ctrl+Z, resume in back (bg) or front (fg) — parallel work in a single terminal.

Examples

fg %1Bring job 1 back

Syntax

jobs / fg %n / bg %n / <cmd> & / Ctrl+Z

Before you run it

Job control only.

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