Sending running process to background.

gaurav_s · 09-03-2014, 09:54 AM

Sometimes i need to close the putty session ,but due to some running applications(which takes lot of time to finish)i need to wait for them.
I want to acheive this without using nohup.
I tried disown command also,but it takes job number as argument. I couldn't find the job number of running process,because they are executed directly .

i.e Say application name is Configure.pl and it is executed as ./Configure.pl and it takes lot of time.

kkoene · 09-03-2014, 10:02 AM

If you add an "&" at the end of the command it will run in the background.

michaelk · 09-03-2014, 03:07 PM

What don't you want to use nohup?

Sending a job to the background will not detach it from the shell. disown (a bash built in) will detach a currently running process whereas nohup needs to be used when first running the script.

Other alternatives to nohup are tmux or screen.

How to use the disown command:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-li...-usage-syntax/