Asynchronous shell commands

Question

I\'m trying to use a shell script to start a command. I don\'t care if/when/how/why it finishes. I want the process to start and run, but I want to be able to get back to my

Answer 1

nohup cmd

doesn't hangup when you close the terminal. output by default goes to nohup.out

You can combine this with backgrounding,

nohup cmd &

and get rid of the output,

nohup cmd > /dev/null 2>&1 &

you can also disown a command. type cmd, Ctrl-Z, bg, disown