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Spent a while today trying to remember this command. I needed it to persist a one-off backup process which I needed to leave running. I knew I seen this done before but couldn’t remember the command. My initial searches kept turning up the wrong info. Now I’ve found it I don’t want to forget it again.

Basically you use the ‘nohup’ command which runs another command and immunizes it against hangup signals. You also have to use the ‘&’ shell operator to run this process in the background. Then you can log out of your terminal and leave the process to run. E.g.

  $ nohup myprocess &