On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:27:10AM +0000, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote: > The "&&" operator in bash seems to inhibit backgrounding when run over > ssh. You can try it with the following: > > ssh localhost "cd /tmp && nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 &" > > The above command will wait for sleep(1) to finish before returning.
Confirmed on HP-UX 10.20 with bash 4.2.37. Changing && to ; causes an immediate return.
