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[โ€“] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.

[โ€“] papertowels@lemmy.one 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In a similar vein, nohup lets you send tasks to the background and seems to be everywhere.

[โ€“] pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You can't mention nohup without at least mentioning kill -9 or pkill to slay the monster you created you madman

[โ€“] papertowels@lemmy.one 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sometimes I'll just reboot the entire damn machine just to be safe ;)

[โ€“] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

shutdown -r now

[โ€“] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Eyyy, don't hate, this is how I start all my work programs. That command is really nice and creates all work programs as children of a single terminal session for easy closing later.

[โ€“] pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

No hate! Just need to make sure people know so they don't create a bazillion threads without realizing it, or how to stop them effectively

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