[PLUG] A Simple Question
Steven Raymond
stever at woo-hoo.com
Sat Aug 16 22:31:01 UTC 2003
Try this:
filename &
The & tells it to run in the background. To see what programs you have
running like this, use the command "jobs".
Is that what you are looking for?
HTH
> This is a simple question, but I don't know how to pose it to Google to
> return the answer I'm looking for. When I start a program from a
> terminal window, is there a way to for the program (like Evolution or
> Gaim) to continue to run normaly but return the prompt at th terminal
> window so i can execute other commands? My main reason for asking is,
> sometimes I log into my computer via ssh and wish to run various
> applications at the same time remotely but need to log in using seperate
> clients to achieve this goal.
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