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How to run a python program in the background even after closing the terminal? [duplicate]

I am running a python program from a terminal in my Ubuntu machine as, $ python test.py But my whole program will be stopped if I close the terminal, Is there any way of running this python program ...
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How to open an application in terminal and detach it? [duplicate]

I opened Cairo-dock in my terminal with: open cairo-dock and that worked but if I close the terminal it goes with it. How can I keep it open regardless of the terminal?
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Most efficient way of launching and separating a program from the terminal? [duplicate]

I'm trying to launch a program from the Terminal in such a way that the following occurs: Closing the Terminal does not close the program The program is not outputting anything to the Terminal while ...
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Opening an Application via Terminal [duplicate]

I am a new user of precise pangolin and learning to use the terminal. I just wonder whether there is any easy command/combination of commands to open an application (LibreOffice Writer, for example) ...
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How to execute a task in background? [duplicate]

Is it possible to run a task or script started from terminal at the background?
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Regain control after opening firefox via terminal [duplicate]

I'm opening firefox via the terminal using firefox but I can not type any other command after this one since I don't regain control of the terminal after having typed that. The only way to do so (...
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How can I launch Google Chrome through terminal and get the terminal back for other commands? [duplicate]

If I launch Chrome using the command google-chrome then I can't use the terminal for any other operations until the Chrome instance is closed. Is there any way to open Google Chrome by command line ...
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How to run application from terminal forever? [duplicate]

I start jenkins web server using command java -jar jenkins.war. It works great. When I close terminal the application stops. How to make it run even if I close terminal session ?
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Use Terminal after opening process [duplicate]

I am new to Linux and using Terminal. If I open an application within terminal, I noticed that it renders my terminal session to be unusable and I can't enter any more commands.The Terminal session is ...
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How to run a program from terminal, which allows to close terminal after the program is open? [duplicate]

Could someone remind me how do I run application through the terminal, which allow me to close the terminal after the program is open. I totally forgot how to do this. Please let me know.
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how to make python manage.py runserver still running if terminal close? [duplicate]

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 how to make this command running if terminal close for now i use screen and it works any other way to do that? i mean for production how to link it to ngix or ...
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VSCode error when launched from terminal [duplicate]

I have VSCode installed on Ubunutu 14.04 64-bit but when it's launched from terminal there is this error: [6303:0615/111654:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(170)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See ...
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If I close a terminal does it kill the processes inside of it? [duplicate]

If I am in the middle of using the terminal, say to apt-get something; If I click the x / close button, does the Terminal continue to run in the background? To afraid to try it, cause I don't want ...
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How to open a file in LibreOffice Writer from terminal and be back at terminal [duplicate]

How can I open a file in LibreOffice Writer from terminal and be back at terminal to continue with other tasks? For instance, if I insert libreoffice CV*.odt it will open the file in LibreOffice ...
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What is the role of & after gedit? [duplicate]

Whenever I want to open a editor from the terminal i write gedit filename.sh But in this case i cannot write again in the terminal until and unless I close the editor first. But whenever I use the ...
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