Turning a task that you started at the command line into a background task
When you start up an application at the command line you have the choice of starting it as either a foreground or background task(explained here), but what do you do if you start a command in the foreground and want your console back. Well you could always shut down the application that you are running and then start it up again as a background task, this however is a messy solution, the ideal solution however is to move the currently running application into the background.
To move an application from the foreground into the background involves two steps, firstly the task has to be turned into a zombie task, this is done by going to the terminal where the command that you are wanting to change into a background task is running and clicking the control(Ctrl) button and the Z button at the same time. The command that was running is now a zombie, in order to get it into a background task you now need to type "bg" into the terminal and press enter. Your application is now turned into a background task.
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