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Created July 8, 2011 22:12
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nohup an already running foreground or background process
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[root@bjordan-dev scripts]# ruby long_task.rb
# Press ctrl+z to suspend the process
[1]+ Stopped ruby long_task.rb
[root@bjordan-dev scripts]# bg
[1]+ ruby long_task.rb &
[root@bjordan-dev scripts]# pidof ruby
29794
[root@bjordan-dev scripts]# disown 29794
[root@bjordan-dev scripts]# exit
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