Re: command to keep job running after logout?

[Bill Carlson]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Barton Hodges wrote:

> I seem to have forgotten what the command
> was to keep a job running even after I log
> out of the console... can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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nohup is the command you seek...

$nohup big_job &

You have to start the job with nohup, you can't switch it later.

However, bash2 supports a command called disown which allows one to do
that on running jobs (very nice). 

Bill Carlson
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