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I have two programs that run indefinitely. I know I can fork one to the background then run the other by typing this at the command line:
> program1 &
> program2 &
However, I’m lazy and don’t want to hit enter, I just want to run them both immediately. But bash complains when I do this:
> program1 &; program2 &
How can I run them both at the same time?
You leave out the ‘;’ char, i.e.
I hope this helps.