On Thursday 06 December 2001 11:41 pm, dman wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 11:21:41PM -0500, Alec wrote: > | Hi > | > | I have a program that produces output to STDOUT and will probably take > | several days to run. I already figured that it's better to run it using > | "at" utility and collect the results by email. This way the program will > | not be bound to any specific terminal and, say crashing X, will not > | interrupt it. > > Why not just > > $ the_app > output_file & > > and then read the file when it is done (or any time in between if you > want partial answers or indication of progress)
the program does not produce much useful output until it's finished. Alec _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
