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In my machine I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I have installed putty. I want to start putty from command line. When I run the program from command line and after closing the terminal, putty also gets terminated. How to avoid that ?

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Try to add an "&" behind your command. So putty& will be your command, this will tell the terminal to run it in background. Next you have to type "disown" to detach the process from the terminal.

so:

user@yourhost:putty&
user@yourhost:disown
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Prepend the command with nohoup:

nohup putty &
exit
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I thing appending & is quite enough. nohup detaches the process from the user so it still runs when the user logs out. right? – amyassin Sep 29 '12 at 10:02
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No nohup prevents its child process from receiving incoming HUP signals. This will let putty keep running after the "command line" the OP mentioned, is closed. – Thor Sep 29 '12 at 10:09

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