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Foreground a bash command with & at the end

How could one foreground a bash command in Linux terminal such as

sleep 100 &
Solution

  • jobs will show you all the running jobs. You can then use the fg %<job number> command to bring a specific job to the foreground. E.g.:

    $ sleep 100 &
[1] 19480
$ jobs
[1]+  Running                 sleep 100 &
$ fg %1