This is here as a reminder to myself…..
Jobs can be run in the background by adding a ampersand (&) after the command:
% /bin/blah &
and running jobs can be stopped in the background with ‘ctrl-z’
The command jobs will display all the jobs currently in the background and the command fg followed by a number will bring a specific job to the foreground, or without a number will bring the last job pushed to the background into the foreground.
This will stick a job in the background without killing/warning you on exit:
nohup /bin/blah &
⊗ March 04, 2009, 4:28pm
