Comments on: More little tips and tricks http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/ bapoumba's blog Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Why do I blog? « b-initials http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-1368 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:37:12 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-1368 [...] think these ideas through. I have only two non-published articles, one on some additional Tips and Tricks that needs some fuel, another one on an unresolved Nvidia issue. So I publish everything that I [...]

]]> By: Carl van Tonder http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-121 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:02:21 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-121 No problem. The tip about root themes was certainly handy. And `which` was the one tool I probably wasn’t using enough (though you may want to mention whatis, because it’s also pretty handy.

]]> By: bapoumba http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-120 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:34:11 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-120 Hello Carl,
You are right :/
Sorry, I edit that right away. Thanks a lot.

]]> By: Carl van Tonder http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-119 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:24:40 +0000 http://bapoumba.wordpress.com/2007/04/15/more-little-tips-and-tricks/#comment-119 Your first two tips are the wrong way ’round, I think.

command &
is the equivalent of Ctrl+Z then bg during a program; it runs it as a background job. If you close the terminal, the program dies too.

nohup command
prevents command from being treated as a sub-process of the shell running it. Hence you can open gnome-terminal, run `nohup gedit`, close the terminal, and gedit will still be running.

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