That should work. You can also see what jobs are running in the background with: jobs
There are a number of commands you can use to control jobs running in the background or the foreground. After all, unix/linux began as a commandline interface with only a single available screen. I would read: man bash : / JOB CONTROL Joel On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 10:32:03PM -0800, Ian Stephen wrote: > On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 21:41, Shawn Tayler wrote: > ie. in OS/2 you could type "detach 'any command you wanted to run'" > The command would run and the detached session would terminate with the command. > An example would be "detach copy very.large.group.of.files h:" > > I'm awfully new at this still, but in Linux wouldn't this be > > " cp folder/*.* destination & " > > Ian Stephen > > -- > Keep the Internet public, > avoid sending attachments in proprietary formats. > Try plain text, html, rtf or pdf. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
