Linux Command Line (64) Foreground Background
When we start a job in the command line, we can not type anything else in that terminal while the job is running because that job is running in the foreground.
We can send the job to the background by first pausing the job by holding down control and pressing the "z" key then typing bg for background
When a job runs in the background, we cannot hold down control and press "c" to cancel out of that job, nor can we give a program running in the background any input values until we bring it back to the foreground with fg
We can start a job in the background by adding an ampersand "&" after the command.
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