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How can I close a terminal without killing the command running in it?
Sometimes I want to start a process and forget about it. If I start it from the command line, like this:
redshift
I can't close the terminal, or it will kill the process. Can I run a command in ...
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How to suspend and bring a background process to foreground
I have a process originally running in the foreground. I suspended by Ctrl+Z, and then resume its running in the background by bg <jobid>.
I wonder how to suspend a process running in the ...
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What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?
What are the practical differences from a sysadmin point of view when deploying services on a unix based system?
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Is it possible to customise the prompt to show the if there are any background jobs?
Is it possible to customise the bash prompt to show the if there are any background jobs? I find it easy to forget that there are background jobs.
Say if the prompt was...
$
Is there a way to ...
