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notification upon program completion

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Mar 15, 2026484 views
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I'm going to run prog.cpp on my university's Linux cluster (compiled with gcc). I project that the program will take 3-6 days to complete. I was thinking of running it as to run it in the background. My questions are: Is it safe for me to just close the terminal window? How do I know when my progra…

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./prog &

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Fix for: notification upon program completion

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No, isn't enough: you program will get killed when the session ends. You could use : A more flexible option is to use GNU . As to email notification, personally I'd write a two-line shell script, the first line running in the foreground, and the sec…

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