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| Chapter 5 The C Shell |

## bg

    bg [jobIDs]

Put the current job or the `jobIDs` in the background. See also "Job Control" at the end of this section.

### Example

To place a time-consuming process in the background, you might begin with:

>     4% nroff -ms report
>     CTRL-Z

and then issue any one of the following:

>     5% bg
>     5% bg %	Current job
>     5% bg %1	Job number 1
>     5% bg %nr	Match initial string nroff
>     5% % &

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