====== Ubuntu - Processes - Run a process in the background ======

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===== Launch a program from the shell =====

Example program

<code bash>
htop
</code>


===== Place a process into the background =====

Press CTRL + z keys.

<code bash>
CTRL z
</code>

returns:

<code bash>
[1]+  Stopped                 htop
</code>

This places htop into the background.

Other commands can not be run from the shell.

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====== Return a process to the foreground ======

<code bash>
fg
</code>

This returns htop to be showing its usual output on the screen.