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| The Ampersand | Legend986 | High Level Programming | 2 | 10-10-2007 01:04 PM |
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07-29-2003
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ampersand
What is the & for in Unix?? say for example that you have a line in a shellscript that will startup a executable and you have the ampersand at the end of the line, what is it for??
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07-29-2003
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using ampersand runs the process in background, i.e. you are given the command line back. It's different to using a nohup command where the process will continue to run even if the session is killed.
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