Suppose you want to move the foreground job to the background, where it can run while you enter other commands in the foreground. To put the job in the background:

1. Stop the job by entering <EscChar-Z>. A message displays the job identifier.
2. Enter the bg command. You may need to specify the job identifier with bg if there is more than one stopped job. If you do not specify a job identifier, bg uses the most recently stopped job.

A message displays the job identifier and the command that is running in the background.