[olug] Keep process running after closing terminal

Wed Apr 20 05:09:40 UTC 2005

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:25:35PM -0500, Jake Churchill wrote:
> Put a & after the command.  For example, if you want to run updatedb 
> which takes about 8 minutes on my computer, type updatedb&.  It will 
> output the PID and you can go about your business.

And if you wish to be able to later reattach to this program (or session) I
would suggest you look at a program called screen.

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen

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