[wplug] background

[Matthew Danish]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 03:10:36PM -0400, Chris wrote:
> Say that I have a script that I want to run in that background and redirect
> it's output.  Would I do this?
> 
> # test.sh& > test.log

No.  & is a command separator, like ;.

test1 & test2 & test3 & test4

runs test1-3 in the background and test4 in the foreground

test.sh > test.log & should work

You might also want to do test.sh 2>&1 > test.log & if you want stderr
redirected as well (and you are using bash).

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