[Linux] Process in the shell ...

[Nick Simicich]

At 05:40 PM 10/16/2000 -0400, Dean Benson wrote:
>If I wanted to run a process from the shell in the background, it normally
>terminates when I exit, right?  Is there a way I can run the process and log
>out of the shell without breaking it?  Like a wget -r http://foo.com ?
>There's about 300 megs of crap on a site that I want to mirror and sort
>through and I have permission to do it I just don't want to leave it running
>without having to leave the system logged on and run xlock ...


man screen - allows you to disconnect from running shell processes in ptys,
run more than one shell window from ssh, etc.  Reconnect later.

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