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[ # ] Detach a command from a terminal
January 10th, 2011 under Linux

When you run an application from a terminal and you close the terminal then the application terminates. This is also the case when you run the application in the background (

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&
&
at the end).

To detach a application entirely from a terminal and therefore daemonized it, we can use the

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nohup
nohup
command.

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nohup cmd &
nohup cmd &