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Running a program in the Background When you run a command in the foreground, the shell waits for it to finish before giving you another prompt and allowing you to continue. When you run a command in the background, you do not have to wait for the command to finish before you start running another command.

To run a command in the background, type and ampersand (&) just before the return. The shell assigns a job number and a pid

Suspend a foreground job (control-z) fg – to bring a job to the foreground to receive input kill to abort a job in the background

Permissions -rwx indicates a file that has read, write, and execute permissions for the owner only. -r-xr-xr-x indicates a file that has read and execute permissions for the owner, group, or anyone else. drwxr-x--x indicates a directory that allows read, write, and execute permission for the owner, read and execute for the group, and execute only for everyone else.

A Practical Guide to Red Hat ® Linux ®, Third Edition. © 2007 Mark G. Sobell, Prentice Hall,