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Put a task to the background with bash

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Mar 15, 202612147 views

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I know that you can start a background job with Bash doing . However, the best way I know to put a foreground job to the background is to do Ctrl+z to pause it then to resume it in the background. Is there a faster way? Some Ctrl+Something key combination I'm not aware of?

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No, there isn't. The terminal reinterprets CtrlZ as independently of bash putting the process into the background. See the option of as well as the man page.

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