in Linux/UNIX/*nix, you can run jobs from the command line in the background. There are two ways to do this.

First, you can append an ampersand (&) to your command like so:

> some-command &

Second, you can start the job normally, then hit Control + Z. This suspends the job temporarily and gives you a command prompt. Then type bg. This will then restart your job and run it in the background.

Once a job is running in the background you can type jobs on the command line to see the list of jobs that is currently running.