Suspended Jobs vs Running jobs in Linux
Background Job : A job which is running background in the same shell. You can use bg command to see any background jobs. Foreground job : A Job which is running in the same shell right before your eyes. Suspended Job : Its a stopped/pause job but you can resume their running. Let me explain with example very clealy virt00 # sleep 180 ^ Z zsh : suspended sleep 180 virt00 # jobs [ 1 ] + suspended sleep 180 virt00 # bg [ 1 ] + continued sleep 180 virt00 # fg [ 1 ] + running sleep 180 ^ Z zsh : suspended sleep 180 virt00 # jobs [ 1 ] + suspended sleep 180 virt00 # I have started a Job named sleep 180 then I stopped with CTRL+Z . right now my job is in suspended mode. I see it by typing jobs command. Now I want to resume its running in background so I typed bg command then it will move from suspended state to running state but in background it will run. now I typed command fg to bring it foreground , now job wont get stepped but it will