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4. Process control
  


Using "&" page 4 of 15


If we wanted to start xeyes in the background from the beginning (instead of using Control-Z and bg), we could have just added an "&" (ampersand) to the end of xeyes command line:


$ xeyes -center blue &
[2] 16224

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