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Every command you give is a job that is executed. A job can be suspended, placed in the background, moved back to the foreground or terminated.
Most commands like ls are executed fast, but things like moving huge files occupy your terminal for quite a while. In these cases the job can be placed in the background, allowing you to execute other commands in the meantime.
