[Uaflug] Command to start a program

[Seth de l'Isle]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:29:59PM -0800, Paul Swanson wrote:
> How do I start a program from the command line without it remaining in
> that terminal? That is, I want to go to a terminal and run "gedit"
> (for example) then be able to close that terminal.

    szoth at cabecou:~$ gedit &
    [1] 2606
    szoth at cabecou:~$ disown
    szoth at cabecou:~$ exit

The ampersand makes bash run gedit in the background, meaning that you
can still type more commands into the console.  Disown tells bash that
the last command you ran shouldn't be killed when bash exits.

Seth