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

Alternatively, after you got the program running, you can hit Ctrl-Z which stops your program and then type

bg

which puts your last stopped program in the background. (Useful if your started something without '&' and still want it in the backgroung without restarting it)