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

[Chris Bannister]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:49:31PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> 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.
>
> PS what makes this OT?

It isn't a strictly Debian problem, perhaps, is the reason?

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