Re: OT Linux question - running a process in background

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 07:45:25PM -0300, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> >I heard that you can do something like this with NOHUP, but my process 
> >is running
> Try running the tar in a "screen" .
> man screen

This has huge advantages over using bg or nohup, since you can reattach to
it later -- even from somewhere else. But unfortunately, you have to do this
*first* -- you can't move it after you've started.

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