Answers to: Jobs Control: bg keeps it going?http://linuxexchange.org/questions/1155/jobs-control-bg-keeps-it-going<p>If I send a task to the background with <code>ctrl+z</code>, is it stopped?</p> <p>If I type <code>bg 1</code>, will it keep going?</p> <p>I'm just a little confused as to how background processes work. <code>jobs</code> and <code>bg</code> and <code>fg</code> don't have man pages.</p> <p>If I have a <code>jobs</code> output that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>kevin@orangebox:~$ jobs [1]- Stopped htop [2]+ Stopped top </code></pre> <p>What do the pluses and minuses mean?</p>enFri, 20 Jan 2017 16:32:16 -0000