You can multitask at the console! Something which took me far too long to figure out.
[b]When launching an app[b]
#appname & launches the app in the background
#appname & launches the app in the foreground
When an app is already running
Ctrl + Z makes the app stopped (no longer running and backgrounded).
Job Management
#jobs lists the current jobs you have running
#fg [job number] put a job in to the foreground
#bg [job number] put a job in to the background
Now use these skills wisely!
First post.
/Applications/~app~/Contents/MacOS/~app~ &
launch multiple instances of Cocoa apps, as many as you want...
the & is supposed to return you to the command line... but I'm getting some weird error about unnamed Mach port that I have to ctrl-c out of... but the app still launches
The joys of timesharing UNIX, implemented back in the 70's.
But yeah, I use this all the time if I'm editing and compiling code from an SSH session on a Linux box. I'll suspend my text editor for the .java file, and run the compiler while it's suspended, and then bring it back forward when I need to use it. This has been around forever, but it doesn't make it any less useful.