On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:23:12PM -0600, Eric Stanley wrote:
> If you disconnect from your screen session and then log out, your
> screen session is still running. Just log back in (from anywhere) and
> reattach to the session you left running.
Screen is definitely a wonderful tool, but he didn't ask a question
like, "What tool can I use to make my life truely easier on the
console?" (I love screen, BTW.) He simply asked how he could background
a process. I'm only saying this because people seem to be giving the
poor boy overkill answers. Let's see, in order to background a grep/awk
script, I need to start screen, then run it, then disconnect my screen.
"But what if I need to capture the log of the grep/awk script and it's
greater than screen's scrollback buffers?" Screen is a wonderful
console session management tool, but it did not answer the question:
"How do I background a process?"
OK, instead of continuing, I'm going to point you to yet another well
written document:
MANPAGES: bash, csh, tcsh, <your shell of choice>
* Do a search for JOB CONTROL
MANPAGES: nohup, (and of course) screen
HOWTO's: http://www.linuxdoc.org/
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Adv-Bash-Scr-HOWTO/index.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO.html
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