bg

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bg is used to put processes in the background and let them run on their own. If you have a process running, Ctrl-Z will suspend it and then you can do bg to put it in the bg.
You may also use the & sign to put processes in the background.

 [alibaba@ohnonono junk]$ vi zipcode &
 [1] 9399
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