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Why run a Linux shell command with '&'?

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Mar 15, 202697602 views

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I am using Red Hat Linux Enterprise version 5. I've noticed people sometimes running commands with a couple of options. For example, in the below command, there are two signs. What is the purpose of them? Are they always used together with nohup?

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nohup foo.sh <script parameters> >& <log_file_name> &

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In a Bash shell script, the ampersand “&” is used to fork processes: It will cause the find command to be forked and run in the background (you can always kill it by its PID).

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