Hi,

I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be
able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I
launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console, gedit
closes too. (This is also the case with `gedit &', which is not
astonishing.)

Is it even possible?

Thanks folks.

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On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 17:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be
> able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I
> launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console, gedit
> closes too. (This is also the case with `gedit &', which is not
> astonishing.)

I would suggest using "screen" [1] for that, but that might be overkill
and you are just looking for "nohup".

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen
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On 05/17/2010 11:45 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:

Hi,

I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be
able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I
launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console, gedit
closes too. (This is also the case with `gedit&', which is not
astonishing.)

Is it even possible?

Thanks folks.


You want something more like: `gedit & disown`. The "disown" will detach
all background jobs currently attached to the terminal session. This
_might_ be specific to BASH since it is a BASH builtin.


Also, you may want to look into tools like GNU Screen.


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Jordan Metzmeier wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 11:45 AM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> You want something more like: `gedit & disown`. The "disown" will
> detach all background jobs currently attached to the terminal session.
> This _might_ be specific to BASH since it is a BASH builtin.
>
> Also, you may want to look into tools like GNU Screen.
>
Thanks. I had forgotten `screen' which is a nice tool, but, ponctually,
`disown' might be better, because I have defined some commands, e.g. say
`command1' in my .bashrc, and `screen command1' gives that `command1' is
unknown, but it is known in the .bashrc. I also tried with -r but to no
avail.


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Wolodja Wentland wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 17:45 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>
>> I would like to be able to launch some command in the console, and to be
>> able to close the terminal, the command being still evaluated, i.e. if I
>> launch gedit (I'm under GNOME), and that I close the console, gedit
>> closes too. (This is also the case with `gedit &', which is not
>> astonishing.)
>>
>
> I would suggest using "screen" [1] for that, but that might be overkill
> and you are just looking for "nohup".
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/screen
>
Thanks for both pointers. I had forgotten about screen. `nohup' seems to
be better in my case, even if disown seems to to do the trick perfectly.


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