Bash Detach Process

• Method 1
• Method 2
• Method 3
• Method 4

Method 1

1. start the process from the konsole
2. put it the background with Ctrl-Z and ‘bg 1’
3. tell the shell to detach the process with the command ‘disown -a’

# /path/to/command -opt1 -opt2 X --opt3=bla
CTRL-Z
# bg
# disown -a

Method 2

start the process with nohup (ie. write the command ‘nohup processname’ instead of ‘processname’. See ‘man nohup’ for an explanation.

nohup /path/to/command -opt1 -opt2 X --opt3=bla

Method 3

pipe the command to at

echo "/path/to/command -opt1 -opt2 X --opt3=bla" | at now

Method 4

Use ‘screen‘.
You really want to use screen!