Spawn subshell for SSH and continue with program flow

Question

I\'m trying to write a shell script that automates certain startup tasks based on my location (home/campusA/campusB). I go to University and take classes in two different ca

Answer 1

It's been a while since I've used ssh, and I can't test it right now, but have you tried the -f switch?

ssh -f username@domain

The man page says it backgrounds ssh. Not sure why & wouldn't work, but I guess it's interpreting it as a command to be run on the remote machine.