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# 1  
Old 11-06-2013
Running two commands in background
Hi I want to run two commands in background, i am using below way, but it is not working, i m calling these two commands from one script to another server where below commands are running, in my script ssh is working fine, but command is not going in background, please advise what should i do.

Code:
command1 && command2

# 2  
Old 11-06-2013
OK, how do you usually run commands in background?
# 3  
Old 11-06-2013
If available, maybe use the nohup command. It has the added benefit of surviving a logout from a system.

Code:
nohup command1 > command1.out &

# 4  
Old 11-06-2013
If its the code you submitted above that is executed, you would have to explain to me how you have the 2 commands running ( not even mentionning background...)... Truely it puzzles me
# 5  
Old 11-06-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by learnbash
Code:
command1 && command2

&& is logical AND. Your example runs command1 in the foreground, and then once (if) it completes successfully it runs command2 in the foreground.

To run a command in the background you'd use &, as in in2nix4life's example.
# 6  
Old 11-06-2013
Hello All,

Its requirement of some job which we need to enable and wants to run these two commands in background, manually if i run from console it takes 20 minutes, so i want to run in background these two command and then want to continue for second task after leaving them running in background.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by in2nix4life
If available, maybe use the nohup command. It has the added benefit of surviving a logout from a system.

Code:
nohup command1 > command1.out &

But how i can run two command with nohup in background, i am totally lost on this.
# 7  
Old 11-06-2013
Code:
command1 &
command2 &
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