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When I run several background processes my output of the command jobs is for example:
[1]- RUNNING nohup somecommand1 &
[2]+ RUNNING nohup somecommand2 &
What do the “+” and “-” chars after the job id mean?
It’s in the man-page for jobs under STDOUT:
So the job marked with ‘+’ is the one that will be activated by ‘fg’.