http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9190151/how-to-run-a-shell-script-in-the-backgroung-and-get-no-output http://linuxg.net/how-to-manage-background-and-foreground-processes/ http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/45025/how-to-suspend-and-bring-a-background-process-to-foreground How to run a job in background ====================== nohup /path/to/your/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 & How to view background process ====================== jobs How to move job from foreground to background and vice versa ======================================= fg %jobid bg %jobid How to kill background jobs ====================== kill - 19 % job_id