: bash command help - nohup

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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:35 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>
>>> Screen is not an option if you want to set up a long-running job and log
>>> out.
>>
>> Why not?  That's the first thing I think of when I want to do just that.
>
> I concur.  That is one of the main reasons "screen" was created in the
> first place.
>
> There's also nohup.  Just make sure you background the command as well:
>
>        nohup command &

And there is disown for those times when we forget all of the above.

John