On Monday 10 August 2009 7:36:15 pm Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, SzG wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Yes I agree, there is a built-in solution for each use case. But I'm so > > extremely lazy that I preferred working day and night on my "go" script > > instead of having to memorize a few hotkeys. But now it's paradise! > > > > One remark: typing "foo" in a terminal will start the GTK application > > "foo", but you will have 2 problems: > > > > * your terminal gets blocked while "foo" is running > > * closing your terminal will kill "foo" > > > > But "go foo" will do the job perfectly. > > So will "foo&". I don't want to rain on your parade, because > this seems like a neat project. But it seems to me that the > reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs > is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise. It's a solution > for a problem that we don't have.
nohup foo& you mean. Just backgrounding won't prevent SIGHUP. -- Mackenzie Morgan http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com apt-get moo
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