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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Newbie Question Post 39025 by pressy on Monday 4th of August 2003 10:37:34 AM
Old 08-04-2003
i would advise you to begin with "normal" shell scripting (bash: is the most common and nearly similar to sh)

some nice URLs:

http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/

http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

I began with sh-scripting and then i bought a book about perl (easier to unterstand when you can sh-scripting)
 

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setsid

SETSID(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         SETSID(1)

NAME

       setsid - run a program in a new session

SYNOPSIS

       setsid [options] program [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

       setsid  runs  a  program in a new session. The command calls fork(2) if already a process group leader. Otherwise, it executes a program in
       the current process.

OPTIONS

       -c, --ctty
              Set the controlling terminal to the current one.

       -w, --wait
              Wait for the execution of the program to end, and return the exit value of this program as the return value of setsid.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

SEE ALSO

       setsid(2)

AUTHOR

       Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>

AVAILABILITY

       The setsid command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

util-linux                                                           July 2014                                                           SETSID(1)
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