Re: [newbie] background

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, padlocke wrote:

> Fellas... What in tarnation is the command line switch that runs an application
> in the background?
> 
> Thanks ya'll :)
> 
> *sorry about that... I'm working on my southern dialect*
> 
> PadLocke the Ogre
> OOOooo... there's a new Voyager on tonight :):)

depends on the app, some have a switch to daemonize some do not.
try

prog > ~/prog.out 2>&1 & 

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