[Novalug] bash scripting

[Ben Creitz]

On 6/2/07, donjr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:
> The answer to your request for a simple shell script that runs a command
> in the backgrounds and allows you to close the terminal where it was
> started from is as follows:
>
>  #!/bin/sh
>  trap "" 1   # Trap Hangup (usually logout) {ie what nohup does <GRIN>}
>
>  # Now run the command in the "background" while redirecting the
>  # wrapping background shell's standard out and error to /dev/null
>  ( ( mycommand | mail -s "done" me at mine.com )& ) >/dev/null 2>&1
>
>  exit 0  # end of the script.
>
> And yes all the command grouping '()' is required in order for it to
> work correctly.

Ahhh, I guess I was thinking that a script whichs spawns a background
process may not finish until its background process finishes.  I was
wrong!

Ben