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Re: && operator prevents backgrounding over ssh
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From: |
Greg Wooledge |
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Re: && operator prevents backgrounding over ssh |
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Date: |
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:52:52 -0400 |
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 06:27:10AM +0000, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote:
> The "&&" operator in bash seems to inhibit backgrounding when run over
> ssh. You can try it with the following:
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> ssh localhost "cd /tmp && nohup sleep 10 >/dev/null 2>&1 &"
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> The above command will wait for sleep(1) to finish before returning.
Confirmed on HP-UX 10.20 with bash 4.2.37. Changing && to ; causes
an immediate return.