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background process pipe-input
if i want to display "aaa" on screen:
(1)$: echo aaa | cat ... works OK
(2)$: echo aaa | ( cat ) ... works OK
(3)$: echo aaa | ( cat & ) ... NOT working
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run a remote process via autossh in background
In Ubuntu I'm trying to run the geany editor on my local X display via the command:
autossh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=false -XCg me@otherDYNDNShost geany &
Trouble is, after the first ...
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How to do nothing forever in an elegant way?
I have a program which produces useful information on stdout but also reads from stdin. I want to redirect its standard output to a file without providing anything on standard input. So far, so good: ...
