How to start an app by a terminal and to keep it running, when closing the terminal?

[Richard Hector]

On 21/05/14 09:30, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Why is evolution launched, while "evowrap --force-shutdown" and "evoterm --force-shutdown" are running?
> 
> case $1 in
>   JWM) evoterm --force-shutdown
>        while ps aux | grep "evowrap --force-shutdown" | grep -v grep ; do sleep 1 ; done
>        while ps aux | grep "evoterm --force-shutdown" | grep -v grep ; do sleep 1 ; done
>        evolution
>        exit;;
> esac

Have you confirmed that the grep is accurately finding the ps result?

Note you could be using:
pgrep --full "evowrap --force-shutdown"
or similar.

Also, rather than using "grep -v grep", you could use

grep "[e]voterm"

which will match "evoterm" but will never match itself.

Richard
PS what makes this OT?