I am trying to learn what I can do from linux command to processes.

The problem is, I don't have many programs to check those commands on. I can't exactly kill bash, and putting process yes in background is a death sentence.

Since I am running on a server, I can't exactly just open a program in desktop.

Is there any notepad or calculator I could open in the background, so that it shows on the list of processes and allows me to check some options? I tried to use wget but this also doesn't seem to show up in my processes, maybe the download is too fast, I don't really get the issue with it...

Thanks for your help.