I knew that running a command with a & after it sets it to a background task.
However, I didn't think to run two commands that way...UNTIL NOW
For example I need to run a bower install and a npm install
bower i & npm i
Neither task is dependent on each other and so doesn't require a &&. Under the hood
the & forks a new process for that command. You can see the pid outputted
when you run the command. To test:
echo "yo" & echo "what"