Re: prolonged number crunching
On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take
> | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using
> | "at" utility and collect the results by email. This way the program will
> | not be bound to any specific terminal and, say crashing X, will not
> | interrupt it.
>
> Why not just
>
> $ the_app > output_file &
>
> and then read the file when it is done (or any time in between if you
> want partial answers or indication of progress)
the program does not produce much useful output until it's finished.
Alec
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