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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)

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[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How does this even work? I get the redirection part, but how is the command executed in a detached state?

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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

() creates a subshell, and & runs the command in background. The $@ means everything after the first argument, so the <command> is executed like a normal command. I am not sure why this works, but it has worked more consistently than nohup, disown, and it's a lot shorter than most other solutions.

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[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 point 10 months ago*

the last & is like doing "command &". d is a function that takes argument and $@ is usually the first argument

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