Lo, on Sunday, June 13, Dan Jacobson did write: > How does one get ssh to not wait? > > ssh somewhere <<! > touch file > sleep 333 && rm file& > ! > echo I want control to arrive at this line without waiting 333! > > I tried (...)&, disown, etc. > Must I resort to batch(1)? > Perhaps one could use nohup, but then I want to clean up nohup.out...
Have you tried the -f flag to ssh? That backgrounds the ssh process after querying you for passwords or passphrases, which seems to be what you want. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]