How to detach job from terminal | Command; disown -a && exit [TO BE CHECKED]
disown -a && exit Command
Most of the system administrators use screen command to control jobs running in the terminal background. Let’s say if you having a long running job and want to detach from the terminal, you use screen command to do it. But what if you don’t know how to use screen, here comes disown command to rescue.
The disown command is used to run the jobs continuously in the background even after you closing the terminal session. The syntax of the disown command is:
To detach again the long running job in the terminal, use the jobs command to find the job number and then use disown %n where n is the job number. To verify actually the job is running use ps or top command. The nohup command is an alternative to the disown command.
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