How to put a job in background & bring it to foreground?

Answer Posted / kishore devkate

we can put a job in background by putin & symbol at the end
of the line on the command promt.
example:
#cp -r /var/* /tmp &

We can pull the background job in the foreground by fg
command and pid, before that we have to get the process ID
how to get the process ID see below example.
Example:
#jobs
1+ cp -r /var/* /tmp &
now u can get the job ID then u can bring the job in
foreground see below example

Example:

#fg 1

cp -r /var/* /tmp ----now its show like this

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