Ctrl-XCtrl-V

Well i just bumped into this article (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bash-notify/)
searching for aynchronous jobs.
As my brain is a non starter i dont understand some terms like asynchronous.
So now to keep things simple i feel an asynchronous job is a background job as it can end anytime :).

According to the article "set -b" and "set +b" both of them have issues.
set -b will just corrupt your display and "set +b" can create lot of jobs.Dont ask me why :).
But the feature of Ctrl-XCtrl-V prints the bash version etc and then restores the command line on new line "as it was".

$ps ax
GNU bash, version 3.00.16(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
$ps ax

The author had even written a patch for this ..Will have a look at it sometime :).