What is the effect of appending an ampersand ("&") at the end of a shell command?

It causes the shell to skip logging this in its command history.

It causes the shell to chain this command with the next.

It executes the command as a background job.

It causes the shell to drop a secondary prompt for command completion.

Answer:
It executes the command as a background job.

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