It allows me to run any program in a fully detached state in a way that works even if the terminal that started the program closes, and it's as simple as d <command>.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn't you end with & disown to fully detach?

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

IIRC disown is a shell built-in command, so its use is a bit limited. Not sure if & is also a built-in, but I found disown to not work in some situations. Besides, it's shorter.

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 2 points 7 months ago

shell built-in command

After looking into it a bit more, its at least a builtin for bash but is otherwise not POSIX. I guess nohup ... & would be the POSIX compliant equivalent, though still not a builtin.

Its my understanding that & backgrounds, not necessarily detaches, a process -- if the parent process closes, I think the background tasks would still be wait()ed on, if only using &.

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