Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.29+, H06.08+, J06.03+)

bg(1) OSS Shell and Utilities Reference Manual
NAME
bg - Causes processes to run in the background
SYNOPSIS
bg [job ...]
DESCRIPTION
The bg command causes stopped processes specified as job to run in the background. If no pro-
cess is specified as job, the most recently stopped process is restarted as a background process.
(See Jobs for a description of the format of job.)
EXAMPLES
1. The following command restarts, as a background process, the previously stopped job
whose job number is 149.
bg %149
NOTES
The bg command is a shell built-in command. It differs from the regular commands in that it does
not open a new shell process when it executes.
A general discussion of shell built-in commands and a list of the OSS shell built-in commands
are in the reference page for sh(1).
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: jobs(1), sh(1).
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