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What does the & mean when used in the end of a bash script?
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I use a bash script for launching and add a to the end, like this: What does the symbol in the end mean? Thanks.
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./bin/Startup.sh par1 &
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It tells the system to run the command in the background. From the bash man page on my system: If a command is terminated by the control operator &, the shell executes the command in the background in a subshell. The shell does not wait for the comm…
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