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Job control

If you run Q interactively, you can run multiple jobs at once.

fg [job] Macro
Move the specified job into the foreground.

bg [job] Macro
Continue executing the specified job in the background.

jobs Macro
List current jobs

You can interrupt the current forground job with ^Z or kill it with ^C.

command bg Macro
Execute the current command in the background. (Most shells use command& syntax for this.)