Re: run in backround

Just curious... but I've always used the screen command in an instance
such as this.... I can see some advantages to using the "ampersand"
command, but screen is nice too. Anyone have some opinions here or
real-life comparisons?

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:00:21 -0800, bryan@ak.net <bryan@ak.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:26:16PM -0700, Newnham <newnham@gci.net> wrote:
> > How do I get this command to run in the backround so I am not on the
> > program when i start it ./hlds_run -game cstrike +map de_dust -autoupdate
>
> Just put a & at the end of the command, with or without a space before
> it. Any text output of the command will still appear on your screen
> unless you redirect it before the &. Add something like ">logfile.txt"
> to send output to a file, or ">/dev/null" to make it disappear.
>
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