FG(1)

🌸 FG(1) — the fish-shell manual, but make it cute 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the fg page of the fish-shell docs 💅 this one's short and sweet, so let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

fg — bring job to foreground 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fg [PID]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the fg builtin brings the specified job <#syntax-job-control> to the foreground, and it resumes it if it's stopped ✨ literally just "come back here, babe" energy.

While a foreground job is executed, fish is suspended 😴 — yeah, the shell just sits there and waits, no cap.

If no job is specified, the last job to be used is put in the foreground 🌈. And if PID is specified, the job containing a process with the specified process ID is what gets pulled to the foreground 👑

For compatibility with other shells, job expansion syntax is supported for fg 🐚 — a PID of the format %1 will foreground job 1. Job numbers can be seen in the output of jobs <>. iykyk 💫

The --help or -h option displays help about using this command 🙈 — your little safety net fr fr.

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🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

fg will put the last job in the foreground 💅

fg %3 will put job 3 into the foreground 🔥

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👑 Copyright 👑

fish-shell developers 🐟

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and that's the whole page, bestie — no notes, she ate 💅✨ this was FG(1), version 4.9, dated Sep 08, 2026, brought to you by the fish-shell crew 🫶🎀 go foreground something iconic today 🌸