Special Characters

[nomnex]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell
> to run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any
> Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) for more information.

Ah, that, and ^Z to send the app in the background, or $bg/$fg + PID. I
have seen that, but I don't usually use the shell to launch the
applications. so, the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the command in
my bashrc file, I guess.


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