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  1. Unix

Run and manage background tasks

Add a trailing ampersand & to background a task. The job id is returned (eg. [1] represents Job 1)

<command> &

View current running jobs

jobs

Terminate a job

kill %<id>
kill %1

Bring a background process to the foreground

fg
fg %<id>
fg %1
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