Re: Running script in background...

You know, that was just plain wrong.
Jeez, I'm losing it today.

bg restarts a stopped background process. duh

Andy

Andrew Kelly wrote:
> 
> System wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I need to run a script in background from the shell. There is no user
> > interaction for the script. I don't wan't to use cron. I wan't to do it
> > manually. How do I do it?
> >
> 
> If I understand you correctly, all you need to do is
> append a & to your calling command.
> 
> ./script_to_run_in_background &
> 
> If it's already running suspend it with <CTRL>Z and send
> it into the background with bg
>