Linux processes present a running instances of a program or multiple ones, on a Linux OS. You can think of it as a program that is currently executing and performing a task on the computer. Each process has its own process ID (PID). It can be started by a user or by the system itself, and on top of that it can run in the foreground or in the background.
Prerequisites
- Linux bash environment
Solution
bring process to background
Step 1. Press Ctrl + Z to suspend it.
Step 2. Run the following command, so you could send it to the background:
bg
bring process to foreground
Step 1. List background processes:
jobs
Step 2. Look for the job number (ID) and copy it to the dashboard.
Step 3. Run the following command to bring it back to the foreground:
fg <job_number>
Alternately, you could achieve the same by running: bg <job_number>.
Conclusion
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