http://nixshell.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/backgrounding/ UNIX / Linux Shell Hints and Tips      (a http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml subproject) Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nixshell.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/backgrounding/#comment-13 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:30:01 +0000 http://nixshell.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/backgrounding/#comment-13 Just a quick note to add a mention of nohup… if you’re logging out, you can “nohup do_something_slow&” before you logout. Nohup means “No Hangup”, and it’ll keep running on your behalf, even though you are not logged in. Standard output goes to a file “nohup.out” by default.

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