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Les Pounder

UNCOVERED: Run linux scripts unattended with nohup - Caught on Camera

A person walking away as Linux code runs.

If you are building a robot, sensor platform, weather station then you don’t want the code to stop running when you disconnect from the terminal, and nohup is just the thing for you.In this how-to, we will learn how to use nohup via a series of examples

There are times when you want to run a command, and leave it running even after you close a terminal window / SSH session. The simplest way is using nohup (no hangups) which will run any command or executable script long after we close the terminal.

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