Quick Answer: How Do I Run a Unix Job in the Background?
Contents How Do I Run a Linux Background Job? to Run a Job in the Background, You Need to Enter the Command That You Want to Run, Followed by an Ampersand (&)...
How do I run a Linux background job?
To run a job in the background, you need to enter the command that you want to run, followed by an ampersand (&) symbol at the end of the command line. For example, run the sleep command in the background. The shell returns the job ID, in brackets, that it assigns to the command and the associated PID.
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How do I run a command in the background?
If you know you want to run a command in the background, type an ampersand (&) after the command as shown in the following example. The number that follows is the process id. The command bigjob will now run in the background, and you can continue to type other commands.
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