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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

IIRC disown is a shell built-in command, so its use is a bit limited. Not sure if & is also a built-in, but I found disown to not work in some situations. Besides, it's shorter.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    shell built-in command

    After looking into it a bit more, its at least a builtin for bash but is otherwise not POSIX. I guess nohup ... & would be the POSIX compliant equivalent, though still not a builtin.

    Its my understanding that & backgrounds, not necessarily detaches, a process -- if the parent process closes, I think the background tasks would still be wait()ed on, if only using &.

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