On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:54:20AM -0700, MiKe McClain wrote: > Is there a way for a script to background itself?
Not as such - but you can play trick by having the script re-invoke
itself:
#!/bin/bash
if test -t 0 ; then
nohup $0 "$@" &
exit 0
fi
echo Doing stuff ...
Or schedule itself as a background job, so the output gets mailed to the
invoker:
#!/bin/bash
if test -t 0 ; then
# Won't play nice if the parameters have spaces in them -
# quoting is removed...
echo $0 "$@" | batch
exit 0
fi
echo foobar was here
There's probably other ways too.
Since the shell won't wait for the script to finish, you won't get the
exit code of it though...
Hope this helps
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Karl E. Jorgensen
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