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fg

fg [jobIDs]

Bring the current job or the jobIDs to the foreground. See also the section "Job Control" earlier in this chapter.

Example

If you suspend a vi editing session (by pressing CTRL-Z), you might resume vi using any of these commands:

8% %
8% fg
8% fg %
8% fg %vi    Match initial string


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