[ale] Silly bash question

[scott]

Use "screen"...

screen -d -m <command to run>

Replace <command to run> with the command you want to run.


Sent from my mobile...

On Nov 11, 2009, at 11:12, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> ALErs -
>
> I want to write a bash script to launch several processes into  
> background
> without waiting for them to exit, and return a list of their PIDs.
>
> Must be simple but I keep stumbling on this.
>
> Actually PERL would be OK, too.
>
> TIA.
>
>  - Mills
>
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