: bash command help - nohup

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Dan,

On Friday 30 October 2009 03:11 AM, Dan Track wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Cameron Simpson<cs at zip.com.au>  wrote:
>> On 30Oct2009 09:42, Dan Track<dan.track at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | I'm trying to run mutliple commands from the command line while using
>> | nohup. But I can't seem to get the syntax right, can someone please
>> | correct this for me
>> |
>> | nohup cmd 1;cm2;cmd3
>> |
>> | All i get is that cmd1 runs from wiht nohup but the rest run in my
>> | current shell. I'd like all to be run with the single nohup command,
>> | any thoughts?
>>
>> Syntacticly that's three command. A semicolon is like a newline, so its
>> as though you've typed:
>>
>>   nohup cmd 1
>>   cmd2
>>   cmd3
>>
>> Since nohup expects one command, you need one command. SInce you want
>> three, invoke the shell as your command:
>>
>>   nohup sh -c 'cmd1; cmd2; cmd3'
>>
>> Cheers,
> Hi Cameron,
>
> Many thanks for that gem.

I often find nohup very unreliable. I have had jobs fail submitted with 
nohup. I was thinking of switching to using screen. Maybe you could give 
that a try?

GL
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Suvayu

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