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Run two scripts after each other in the background? && and & don't work?
That's one of the known deviations¹ of zsh compared to sh (or csh for that matters).
In sh:
A && B &
is short for:
(A && B) &
That is, it runs a subshell that runs that and-...
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Run two scripts after each other in the background? && and & don't work?
You have to group the two commands together:
nohup sh -c 'a.sh; b.sh' &
Replace ; with && if you want b.sh to run only if a.sh exits with success
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How to pass the standard input of a shell script to a background command
Yes, that's an annoying requirement of the POSIX sh specification that commands started asynchronously by non-interative shell invocations (when the monitor option IOW job control is not enabled) have ...
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