How to execute/bring out a program without opening another terminal?
 

Hi all.

Everytime a program is executed within a terminal I'll need to open another terminal to continue what was I doing in previous terminal. It's really incovenient and unwise.

Could someone please tell me how to do that? To the best of my recollection, there was an option after the command. That will be helpful to newbie like I am. Thank you!

just add an ampersand ( & ) to the end of the command. :)

That's it! Thank you jeffk42 for the very fast respond! ;)

Did you ever heard of screen? If not, take a look at it. It allows you to have multiple virtual terminals into a single console.
And if you add this to your screenrc, it's even better :

hardstatus alwayslastline "%D %M %d - %c -- %w"
caption always "%h"


HTH
Flupke

also check out the bash manpage, under the heading "job control" for the "fg" and "bg" bash builtins