Jobs In The Background

Running Jobs In The Background

To put a process in the background not depending on a terminal or login session do

 

 nohup processname > outputfile 2> errorfile & 

 

The file outputfile collects the standard output of the process, and the file errorfile collects the error messages of the process.

You can watch the output during processing by

 

 tail -f outputfile 

 

which shows the growing output of file outputfile .