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Old 05-26-2009
ftp will be going on though terminal will be closed
howdy expert,

I have a big file arround 4 gb to ftp from a sun solaris server.

I would like to have script which will start copy the file though i close my working terminal.

regards,
purple
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Old 05-27-2009
write that full ftpying thing inside a shell script
then run that as
Code:
nohup scriptname &

no matter what it will run
# 3  
Old 05-27-2009
try screen command,
it has got more control over nohup command
# 4  
Old 05-27-2009
screen may not be there in all the versions/shells
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Old 05-27-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidyadhar85
write that full ftpying thing inside a shell script
then run that as
Code:
nohup scriptname &

no matter what it will run

nohup worked well. Thanks buddy.
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