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41-545: [REDACTED] Look up bg in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. BG or bg may refer to: Organizations [ edit ] Businesses [ edit ] Bergdorf Goodman , a department store on 5th Avenue, New York, US Bord Gáis Energy , an Irish gas supplier Bowman Gilfillan , a South African law firm British Gas (disambiguation) (privatised and later split between BG plc and Centrica) BG Group , one part of

82-527: A leveraged buyout (LBO). The store has been the subject of two documentary films: the 2001 film Dita and the Family Business , exploring the store from the point of view of its owners, and the 2013 feature documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's , which features many testimonials from designers and celebrities. In 1953's movie How to Marry a Millionaire , Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe consider "the mink department at Bergdorf's"

123-479: A session ends when the user logs out (exits the shell, which terminates the session leader process), the shell process sends SIGHUP to all jobs, and waits for the process groups to end before terminating itself. The disown command can be used to remove jobs from the job table, so that when the session ends the child process groups are not sent SIGHUP, nor does the shell wait for them to terminate. They thus become orphan processes , and may be terminated by

164-546: A $ 1 million expansion in 1959 ($ 10.5 million today) into two adjacent buildings. The Boys and Girls gift shop expanded into a whole floor, and the beauty salon and bridal, fur and men's departments also expanded. A $ 2.5 million expansion in 1967 ($ 22.8 million today) nearly doubled the store's area, to 120,000 square feet (11,000 m ). A branch in Chicago was proposed in 1965 but canceled two years later. Broadway-Hale Stores proposed merging with Bergdorf Goodman in 1971, and

205-453: A command to select lines containing the text "title", sort these alphabetically, and display the result in a pager . This creates at least three processes: one for grep , one for sort , and one for less . Job control allows the shell to control these related processes as one entity, and when a user issues the appropriate key combination (usually Control + Z ), the entire group of processes gets suspended. Jobs are managed by

246-617: A county borough in Wales Bosnia and Herzegovina (WMO country code) Bulgaria (ISO country code) Bundesgrenzschutz (vehicle registration plate code), Germany United States [ edit ] Bowling Green, Kentucky Bowling Green, Ohio Buffalo Grove, Illinois Elsewhere [ edit ] Bangladesh (obsolete NATO, FIPS, and LOC MARC country code) British Guiana , former name of Guyana Police and military [ edit ] Border guard , police that operate at sovereign borders Brigadier general ,

287-464: A military rank (more often written "BGen") Great Lakes BG , a US Navy dive-bomber aircraft Science and technology [ edit ] bg (Unix) , a Unix command for background processes .bg , the ccTLD for Bulgaria Basal ganglia , a group of nuclei in the brain Blood glucose or blood sugar level Bus grant , a control bus signal Transportation [ edit ] Brake Gangwayed ,

328-415: A program can be started as a background job by appending an ampersand ( & ) to the command line; its output is directed to the terminal (potentially interleaved with other programs' output), but it cannot read from the terminal input. A background process that attempts to read from or write to its controlling terminal is sent a SIGTTIN (for input) or SIGTTOU (for output) signal. These signals stop

369-455: A relatively modest profit margin. Goodman remained the landlord of the store and kept a penthouse apartment on the building's top floor. At first, CHH considered building branch locations, ultimately only constructing one location, in nearby White Plains, New York , in 1974. This location eventually became a Neiman Marcus branch in 1980. To combat its image difficulties, the company hired Dawn Mello in 1975 as vice president of fashion. She

410-597: A tailor shop just above Union Square in downtown Manhattan . Edwin Goodman, a 23-year-old American Jewish merchant, based in Lockport, New York , moved to New York City to work as an apprentice for Bergdorf. Within two years, Goodman had raised enough money to purchase an interest in the business, which was renamed Bergdorf Goodman in 1901. In 1906, Bergdorf Goodman moved to a new location on 32nd Street, just west of Fifth Avenue and " Ladies' Mile ". While Bergdorf preferred

451-526: A type of railway coach Broad gauge , in railways Biman Bangladesh Airlines (IATA airline code BG) Bingham and Garfield Railway , in Utah, US Other uses [ edit ] Bulgarian language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code: bg) Bangkok Glass F.C. , a football team Board game See also [ edit ] BGS (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

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492-729: Is an American luxury department store based in New York City , founded in 1899 by Herman Bergdorf. As of 2024 , it operates a women's store and a men's store across the street from each other on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan . It has been owned by the Neiman Marcus Group since 1987, and is a sister brand to the Dallas -based Neiman Marcus department store chain through this ownership. The company traces its origins to 1899 when Herman Bergdorf, an immigrant from Alsace , opened

533-567: Is disabled by default in bash scripts. Job control was first implemented in the C shell by Jim Kulp, then at IIASA in Austria, making use of features of the 4.1 BSD kernel. The KornShell , developed at Bell Labs, adopted it and it was later incorporated into the SVR4 version of the Bourne shell , and exists in most modern Unix shells. The POSIX standard specifies two commands for resuming suspended jobs in

574-495: The CNBC show " Squawk Box ", which led to Carroll's attorney threatening a third defamation lawsuit against Trump. Bg (Unix) When using Unix or Unix-like operating systems via a terminal (or terminal emulator ), a user will initially only have a single process running, their interactive shell (it may or may not be a login shell). Most tasks (directory listing, editing files, etc.) can easily be accomplished by letting

615-598: The Federal Trade Commission approved the merger the next year. Broadway-Hale Stores, which would become Carter Hawley Hale Stores (CHH), completed its acquisition of Bergdorf Goodman in June 1972. CHH had acquired Neiman Marcus , a three-unit operation at the time, in 1969. By the time of the sale, Bergdorf Goodman was the only large high-quality specialty store in the U.S. that remained independently owned. However, its decision not to build suburban branches left it with

656-451: The "interrupt" signal ( SIGINT ), which defaults to terminating the process, though it can be overridden. A stopped job can be resumed as a background job with the bg builtin , or as the foreground job with fg . In either case, the shell redirects I/O appropriately, and sends the SIGCONT signal to the process, which causes the operating system to resume its execution. In Bash ,

697-434: The (assumedly Bergdorf Goodman) jewels, her sister did, "but now she's been eaten by wolves!" In 2019, news journalist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. Trump was found liable of sexually assaulting her by a jury in 2023, but not liable of raping her. In March 2024, Trump referred to Carroll as "Miss Bergdorf Goodman" in an interview on

738-601: The Prince of Rap , Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist. Benny Goodman , American jazz musician. Blind Guardian , a German power metal band. Boris Grebenshchikov , Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium. BarlowGirl , an American all-female Christian rock band. Places [ edit ] Europe [ edit ] Belgrade , the capital of Serbia Province of Bergamo (vehicle registration plate code), Italy Birmingham (vehicle registration plate code), England Blaenau Gwent ,

779-504: The background and foreground, respectively bg and fg . These were modeled after the Korn shell job control commands. Typically, the shell keeps a list of jobs in a job table . Recall that a job corresponds to a process group, which consists of all the members of a pipeline and their descendants. The jobs command will list the background jobs existing in the job table, along with their job number and job state (stopped or running). When

820-438: The character April Ludgate pretends on multiple occasions to be an exaggerated socialite named "Janet Snakehole", whose husband keeps her in "the finest Bergdorf Goodman" clothing. The first time April plays this character within a character, she is mock arrested by another character-in-character, Andy Dwyer pretending to be FBI agent Burt Macklin. Macklin attempts to arrest Snakehole, causing Snakehole to shriek that she never stole

861-452: The death of his father. Andrew was responsible for enhancing Bergdorf's reputation and expanding its range of merchandise and services. During Andrew's tenure as chairman, Bergdorf opened a fur salon (headed by Emeric Partos from 1955 to 1975), developed the successful Bergdorf Goodman Number Nine perfume ("Love Potion Number Nine"), and created Miss Bergdorf, a ready-to-wear line for younger customers. The Bergdorf Goodman Building began

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902-649: The demerged British Gas plc Education [ edit ] Bishop Grosseteste University , a higher education institution in Lincoln, UK Bishop Guertin High School , Nashua, New Hampshire, US Bowling Green State University , Ohio, US Bones Gate , a fraternity at Dartmouth College, US Music [ edit ] Bee Gees (BGs), an English-Australian music group. B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta" or "B. Gizzle"), stage name of American rapper Christopher N. Dorsey. B.G. Knocc Out , American rapper. B.G.,

943-400: The entire block. During this period, Bergdorf Goodman was successful enough to have merited an expansion beyond the single store. However, Goodman preferred to operate in a single location where he would be able to personally maintain the quality of the merchandise and service. Goodman's son, Andrew, assumed the role of president in 1951 and succeeded as head of the company in 1953, following

984-500: The first couturier to introduce ready-to-wear , making Bergdorf Goodman a destination for American and French fashion. The store moved to its present location at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street in 1928, building its Beaux-Arts style Bergdorf Goodman Building on the site of the Cornelius Vanderbilt II House . Goodman was unsure of the success of the new store's location, as he was uncertain whether customers would follow

1025-411: The foreground, and suspend or terminate processes. The concept of a job maps the (shell) concept of a single shell command to the (operating system) concept of the possibly many processes that the command entails. Multi-process tasks come about because processes may create additional child processes, and a single shell command may consist of a pipeline of multiple communicating processes. For example,

1066-594: The former Goodman family apartment on the building's ninth floor became the John Barrett Salon and Susan Ciminelli Day Spa. In 1999, the Beauty Level opened directly below the main floor, offering a luxury spa and Goodman's Café, serving lunch and afternoon tea. In 2002, the Bergdorf Goodman Building underwent a major restoration, including a restoration of the main floor of the women's store. In 2003,

1107-440: The ideal location to meet men. Cary Grant sends Doris Day on a shopping spree at the store in the 1962 movie That Touch of Mink . The store has also made several appearances in the cartoon Neo Yokio . The protagonist, Kaz Kaan, and his rival, Arcangelo, both buy their suits from Bergdorf's. Most recently, Bergdorf Goodman was featured in a scene of the film Ocean's 8 in which Sandra Bullock 's character steals cosmetics from

1148-530: The job. Job IDs begin with the % character; %n identifies job n , while %% identifies the current job. Other job IDs are specified by POSIX . In informal usage the number may be referred to as the "job number" or "job ID", and Bash documentation refers to the (%-prefixed) job ID as the jobspec. Job control and job IDs are typically only used in interactive use, where they simplify referring to process groups; in scripting PGIDs are used instead, as they are more precise and robust, and indeed job control

1189-415: The less expensive side street location, Goodman prevailed with the new location and bought Bergdorf's interest in the company. Bergdorf would retire to Paris . Although Goodman had developed a good business as a ladies' tailor on 32nd Street, he decided to move uptown in 1914. He constructed a five-story building at 616 Fifth Avenue, on the site of what is today Rockefeller Center . In 1914, he became

1230-467: The operating system as a single process group , and the job is the shell's internal representation of such a group. This is defined in POSIX as: A set of processes, comprising a shell pipeline, and any processes descended from it, that are all in the same process group. A job can be referred to by a handle called the job control job ID or simply job ID , which is used by shell builtins to refer to

1271-427: The operating system, though more often this is used so the processes are adopted by init (the kernel sets their parent process to init) and continue executing as daemons . Alternatives to prevent jobs from being terminated include nohup and using a terminal multiplexer . A job running in the foreground can be stopped by typing the suspend character ( Ctrl-Z ). This sends the "terminal stop" signal ( SIGTSTP ) to

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1312-430: The process by default, but they may also be handled in other ways. Shells often override the default stop action of SIGTTOU so that background processes deliver their output to the controlling terminal by default. In Bash-compatible shells, the kill builtin (not /bin/kill ) can signal jobs by job ID as well as by process group ID – sending a signal to a job sends it to the whole process group, and jobs specified by

1353-400: The process group. By default, SIGTSTP causes processes receiving it to stop, and control is returned to the shell. However, a process can register a signal handler for or ignore SIGTSTP. A process can also be paused with the "stop" signal ( SIGSTOP ), which cannot be caught or ignored. A job running in the foreground can be interrupted by typing the interruption character ( Ctrl-C ). This sends

1394-407: The program take control of the terminal and returning control to the shell when the program exits – formally, by attaching to standard input and standard output to the shell, which reads or writes from the terminal, and catching signals sent from the keyboard, like the termination signal resulting from pressing Control + C . However, sometimes the user will wish to carry out a task while using

1435-508: The store introduced new boutiques for Chanel , Giorgio Armani , Gucci , Versace , and Yves Saint Laurent . The Bergdorf Goodman Men's store features exclusive brands such as Loro Piana , Kiton , Brunello Cucinelli , John Lobb , Thom Browne , Bontoni , Tom Ford , and Charvet . On May 2, 2005, two private equity firms, Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus , acquired the Neiman Marcus Group and its Bergdorf subsidiary, in

1476-588: The store uptown and so designed the new store so that it could be subdivided into sections with storefronts that could be let if needed. Early tenants included Van Cleef & Arpels , the Grande Maison de Blanc and Dobbs the Hatter. During the Great Depression, however, Goodman thrived, buying the entire building. Throughout the 1930s, he purchased the mortgages of the surrounding businesses, eventually acquiring

1517-563: The store. The store was prominently featured in the film Arthur in 1981. The store was featured in the Miss Piggy/Joan Rivers scene of The Muppets Take Manhattan . It was also featured in Sex and the City as a favorite shopping location of central character Carrie Bradshaw. It was particularly featured in the Sex and the City 2 movie. In the television show Parks and Recreation ,

1558-436: The terminal for another purpose. A task that is running but is not receiving input from the terminal is said to be running "in the background", while the single task that is receiving input from the terminal is "in the foreground". Job control is a facility developed to make this possible, by allowing the user to start processes in the background, send already running processes into the background, bring background processes into

1599-462: The title BG . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BG&oldid=1188306977 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bergdorf Goodman Bergdorf Goodman Inc.

1640-485: Was spun-off, together with Neiman Marcus and Contempo Casuals , to form Neiman Marcus Group . The new company was headquartered in Dallas , Texas , where the significantly larger Neiman Marcus had been based for 80 years. Chairman and CEO Ira Neimark expanded the women's store three times in the 1990s. He moved the men's store across the street to the former FAO Schwarz space at 745 Fifth Avenue in 1990. This move allowed more space for women's fashions. In 1997,

1681-435: Was successful in reinvigorating the conservative store and became president in 1984. She left her post in 1989 to work for the floundering Italian fashion house Gucci , though she returned to her post as president in 1994. Bergdorf Goodman's parent company became the object of takeover bids in the 1980s. As a way to maintain its independence, Carter Hawley completed a major financial restructuring. In 1987, Bergdorf Goodman

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