Special Characters

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 17 12:39:24 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:46 +0900, nomnex wrote:
> 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.

Careful. If the command doesn't terminate, the shell executing the
bashrc will just keep waiting for it. Fortunately in this case the
command does terminate after setting the keymap so no problem.

poc



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