It is possible to be move a process to background so that we have the prompt back for other activities and bring the process that was send background to foreground.
Use CTRL+z to suspends a process (SIGTSTP)
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)# cp -rp lastlog lastlog.old
^Z
[1]+ Stopped cp -rp lastlog lastlog.old
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
Use bg command to send the command to background
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)# bg
[1]+ cp -rp lastlog lastlog.old &
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
Once command completes, it returns the status of the pid
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
[1]+ Done cp -rp lastlog lastlog.old
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
(MySolaris10:/var/adm)#
Using fg will bring the process to foreground.
