Programming Tutorials

bg in Mac OS X

By: Strauss K  

Send to background

Syntax
      bg [jobspec ...]

Resume each suspended job jobspec in the background, as if it had been started with &.

If jobspec is not present, the shell's notion of the current job is used.

bg jobspec returns 0 unless run when job control is disabled or, when run with job control enabled, any specified jobspec was not found or was started without job control.

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