I was commenting more on that in SCO Unix and DEC
and others, the way you run in the background is
with a pipe ("|") immediately before the ampersand
("&"). In other words, you "pipe" the command to
the background (ie: sh% <command> | & ) in Unix,
like you pipe commands to grep or less.
Obviously, this is not true in Linux, where one
must not put the pipe, but merely the "&" alone
after the command.
I wonder if there's a compendium anywhere of
things that Linus changed when making Linux?
I would imagine it would be quite large.
Michael
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--- Paul Hamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you are running a GUI app and want to get your shell back all you need to
> do is"> <COMMAND> &" example "mozilla &" If you are running a backup script
> or something that will take hours use cron. The reason is that if you are
> running on a remote machine and get disconnected so does the process you are
> running.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Oatman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: How to & (submit jobs to background)
>
>
> Oh, I've been trying
>
> sh% <command> |&
>
> and then I tried
>
> sh% <command> >&
>
> and all sorts of variations.
> Except the right one, it seems....
> When those didn't work I just minimized shell windows ;)
>
> It appears that
>
> sh% bg <command>
>
> is the same as
>
> sh% <command> &
>
> with no pipe or direct between the command and the &.
> Found it! Thanks! Now, how do you resize ext3 partitions?
>
> Gnu's Not Unix, and neither is a fifth of Linux...
>
> Michael
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>
> --- Mike Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Wow...didn't know about "bg"...thanks...
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Darryl Harvey wrote:
> >
> > > CTRL-Z stops the process and gives you control,
> > >
> > > Just type "bg" (No quotes) and the process goes into the "background".
> > >
> > > You can switch processes at any time by typing "fg process_id"
> > >
> > > And/or see running jobs by typing "jobs".
> > >
> > > That will help you. Although all output will be mixed on your screen.
> > >
> > > man bash (or whatever shell you are using) then search for fg, bg, jobs
> > > etc..
> > >
> > > Rgds,
> > > Darryl
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
> > > > Behalf Of Roger
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 1:55 PM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: RE: How to submit jobs to background
> > > >
> > > > Yes, I think it should be Ctrl-Z but, when I press Ctrl-Z the job is
> > > > stopped immediately. That's why?
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:44 AM
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > Subject: Re: How to submit jobs to background
> > > >
> > > > On 09:51 22 Feb 2002, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > | I remember there is a short cut key, Ctrl+something, that can submit
> > > > the
> > > > | program that is controlling terminal to the background, so that the
> > > > user could
> > > > | regain console again. But I forget it, can you remind me again?
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > You mean ctrl-Z.
> > > > --
> > > > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
> > > >
> > > > My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we
> > > > suppose,
> > > > but queerer than we *can* suppose.
> > > > - J.B.S. Haldane "On Being the Right Size"
> > > > in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"
> > > >
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