Re: Special Characters

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:46 PM, nomnex <nomnex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:46:39 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The '&' is not part of the command. It's an instruction to the Shell
>> to run the command in the background. See any beginner's guide to any
>> Unix/Linux shell (sh, csh, bash, ksh, zsh, ...) for more information.
>
> Ah, that, and ^Z to send the app in the background, or $bg/$fg + PID. I
> have seen that, but I don't usually use the shell to launch the
> applications. so, the '&' part is superfluous when I pass the command in
> my bashrc file, I guess.
>

I would like to point out that these things are better placed in your
~/.bash_profile instead of ~/.bashrc.

>
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> nomnex <nomnex@xxxxxxxxx>

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