Re: job control

[Damon Muller <dm-debian-user@empire.net.au>]

Quoth Brian May, 
> >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
>     Erik>   nohup, I think you can also set up the shell not to kill
>     Erik> children when it exits (start command in background (append
>     Erik> & at the end of command line) or background it while it
>     Erik> works, usually ctrl-z to stop it, bg to make it continue in
>     Erik> background)
> 
> zsh (probably bash too, but not sure) also has a detach command.
> 
> So you can detach a shell job from the shell.
> 
> Once you detach a process you can't put use the fg or bg commands on
> it anymore.

Don't think it works in bash, but in zsh you can just append `&!' (no
quotes) to the end of the command to detach it.

HTH,

damon

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