bg

bg [jobIDs]

Put the current job or the jobIDs in the background. See the earlier section "Job Control."

Example

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

4% nroff -ms report | col > report.txt
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% % &