Running a program in the background
Submitted by ggarron on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 15:09.
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If you need to start a program from the command line, and want to recover the command prompt, just add the & symbol to the command.
Example.
firefox
This command will start firefox, but the command prompt will not be available for you to continue working.
firefox &
With this other you will get the prompt back to you, and you can continue using the console for other tasks, It also returns you a number that number is the PID of the application just started.
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It is useful if you are
It is useful if you are using terminal
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