Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:13:01 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
An alternative is 'nohup' - if you know that you are gonna run a long
task and wish to be able to shutdown your terminal window. e.g:
$ nohup emerge kdelibs
$ exit
Shouldn't that be "nohup emerge kdelibs &"?
I've not use nohup for a few years, not since I discovered screen, but
ISTR you need to run in in the background.
Yeah - good point, the & is in theory optional, but it makes sense to
use it, since all output is redirected to nohup.out and your terminal
session is tied up!
However, if the & is forgotten, you can just do the usual to background
the task:
^Z
$ bg
cheers
Mark
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