Quoth Brian May, > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik> nohup, I think you can also set up the shell not to kill > Erik> children when it exits (start command in background (append > Erik> & at the end of command line) or background it while it > Erik> works, usually ctrl-z to stop it, bg to make it continue in > Erik> background) > > zsh (probably bash too, but not sure) also has a detach command. > > So you can detach a shell job from the shell. > > Once you detach a process you can't put use the fg or bg commands on > it anymore.
Don't think it works in bash, but in zsh you can just append `&!' (no quotes) to the end of the command to detach it. HTH, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
