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g
bg — Move a job to the background
Format
Description
Usage Note
Exit Values
Portability
bg [job...]
tcsh shell: bg [%job ...]
bg runs one or more jobs in the background. The job IDs given on the command
line identify these jobs, which should all be ones that are currently stopped. If you
do not specify any job IDs, bg uses the most recently stopped job.
bg works only if job control is enabled; see the –m option of set for more
information. Job control is enabled by default in the z/OS shell.
bg in the tcsh shell
In the tcsh shell, bg puts the specified jobs (or, without arguments, the current job)
into the background, continuing each if it is stopped. job may be a number, a string,
’’, %, + or - .
In the tcsh shell, %job & is a synonym of the bg command.
Localization
bg uses the following localization environment variables:
v LANG
v LC_ALL
v LC_CTYPE
v LC_MESSAGES
v NLSPATH
See Appendix F, “Localization” for more information.
bg is a built-in shell command.
0 Successful completion
>0 Failure because a job argument is incorrect or there is no current job
If an error occurs, bg exits and does not place the job in the background.
POSIX.2 User Portability Extension, UNIX systems.
Related Information
at, batch, fg, jobs, set, tcsh
bpxmtext — Display reason code text
Format
bpxmtext reason_code
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