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Tag: return

getting a program to return immediately at the command line so it’s not tied to the shell that launched it

Some programs return immediately when launched from the command line, Firefox for example. Most utilities (and all the programs I’ve written) are tied to the shell that created them. If you control-c the command line, the program’s dead. What do you have to add to a program or a shell script to get the return-immediately behavior? I guess I’m asking

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