How to run commands in the background

Posted by linuxaria on Oct 10, 2010 11:27 AM EDT
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Suppose you have a long-running task (for example, compiling a large program) that you need to run, but you also want to get some other work done. Linux lets you start a task in the background and keep on doing other things from the command prompt. We will see in this article how to send commands in the background, then return them to the foreground, and make sure that also closing the current shell or terminal the process doesn’t remains tied to the session but continue to work. An alternative to these command is using screen, as read in a former article, but now let’s seethe command bg and the spacial character &

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