This comes in handy when I want to, for example:
- run an MySql proxy to Cloudql or similar, then
- run a project server (fastapi, django etc) that depends on the database connection
From this answer:
set -m # enable job control
prog1 & prog2 && fg
This will:
- Start prog1.
- Send it to background, but keep printing its output.
- Start prog2, and keep it in foreground, so you can close it with ctrl-c.
- When you close prog2, you'll return to prog1's foreground, so you can also close it with ctrl-c.