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- bg - resume jobs in the background
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- bg [ options ] [job ...]
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- bg places the given jobs into the background and sends them a CONT signal to start them running.
- If job is omitted, the most recently started or stopped background job is resumed or continued in the background.
- Each job can be specified as one of the following:
- number
- number refers to a process id.
- -number
- number refers to a process group id.
- %number
- number refer to a job number.
- %string
- Refers to a job whose name begins with string.
- %?string
- Refers to a job whose name contains string.
- %+ or %%
- Refers to the current job.
- %-
- Refers to the previous job.
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- 0
- If all background jobs are started.
- >0
- If one more jobs does not exist or there are no background jobs.
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- wait(1), fg(1), disown(1),
jobs(1)
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- version
- bg (AT&T Research) 2000-04-02
- author
- David Korn <dgk@research.att.com>
- copyright
- Copyright © 1982-2010 AT&T Intellectual Property
- license
- http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.txt