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53 questions linked to/from Running programs in the background from terminal
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How to close terminal after opening something from it [duplicate]
I am a linux newbie so this maybe a very stupid question, I will try to ask my question by giving an example.
When I execute command in terminal
chromium-browser
chromium opens up but I cannot close ...
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how to run command from terminal while keeping terminal free? [duplicate]
Whenever I want to run a program (usually GUI) from terminal, but I want to keep it free for further use, I run the program like this:
./Programs/androidstudio 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
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How to run command in background [duplicate]
I am using this command
sudo apt-get update && wget https://minergate.com/download/deb-cli && mv deb-cli minergate-cli-release.deb && sudo apt-get install -y gdebi && ...
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How can I keep something running but run other terminal commands? [duplicate]
I'm sure this is a really stupid question and it's probably already been asked a dozen times on this site, and I just don't know which keywords to search. I'm still really new to managing a server and ...
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How to run a program from the command line and still be able to work on the command line while it runs? [duplicate]
Suppose that I want to run a Java program so I would type
java myProgram
and then suppose that it prints some output to the screen but takes a few hours to finish running. If I want to keep working ...
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How to restart gnome shell but daemonise it from a script? [duplicate]
I have a couple of scripts to work around Gnome Shell's inability to work well automatically when swapping between FHD (1080p) and UHD (4k) screens. I set various things with gsettings, restart nemo, ...
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Running a file with command as service in the background [duplicate]
Basically what I have to do is run the following command,
./home/pooldaemon/monero-stratum/build/bin/monero-stratum /home/pooldaemon/monero-stratum/config.json
the only disadvantage that this brings ...
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Running a program in background using command-line [duplicate]
How do I run a program in the background from a shell, with the ability to close the shell while leaving the program running which should not disturb the window i am working on? Lets say my UI is ...
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How do I run multiple terminals in vps [duplicate]
I have 2 flask restful API's .
On my localhost, I open up a terminal and run uwsgi --ini /path-to-ini-file1. For 2nd API, I open up yet agan a new terminal and run uwsgi --ini /path-to-ini-file2.
In ...
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emacs closes when terminal closes [duplicate]
I open a file with emacs through terminal just typing
emacs file.txt
and when I close terminal, emacs closes too, and when I try to execute another thing terminal doesn't let me becuase keeps like ...
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How open file with gedit withot terminal block? [duplicate]
When I open file with
gedit templates/index.html
I see this in terminal and can't use it more:
How can I open file in text editor without blocking terminal?
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How to open an app through the terminal without rendering that terminal window useless for other commands? [duplicate]
I am trying to use the terminal to open the file explorer nautilus. When I type the command nautilus into the terminal, I see the following output
(nautilus:5814): Gtk-WARNING **: 07:26:19.884: Theme ...
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Preventing applications from being closed on terminal exit [duplicate]
When I close a terminal it closes all programs opened from it. In other Linux packages such as scientific linux using an ampersand prevents this, e.g., emacs file.txt &
However, this is not the ...
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Life of background program [duplicate]
If you start a background program in the terminal with the & option. Will it stop when you close the terminal?
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Doing another task while copying a directory [duplicate]
Am on Server 17.10 and am copying a directory that is some 500Gb in size, so is there a way to continue doing something else while the directory copies?? The transfer has already been started and ...
