I’m looking for a quick bash script or program that will allow me to kick off a python script in a separate process. What’s the best way to do this? I know this is incredibly simple, just curious if there’s a preferred way to do it.
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I’m looking for a quick bash script or program that will allow me to kick off a python script in a separate process. What’s the best way to do this? I know this is incredibly simple, just curious if there’s a preferred way to do it.
Just use the ampersand (&) in order to launch the Python process in the background. Python already is executed in a separate process from the BASH script, so saying to run it “in a separate thread” doesn’t make much sense — I’m assuming you simply want it to run in the background:
Note that the above may result in text being printed to the console. You can get around this by using redirection to redirect both stdout and stderr to a file. For example: