Question

I’m trying to run a script, which internally invokes other script

but, the main script should exit after invoking and the invoked script should run independently on the background.

How can i achieve this in shell scripting? or is there any other alternative way to do this?

Regrads,
senny

Answer 1

nohup otherscript &

The nohup will ensure that the process keeps running even if the current terminal goes away (for example if you close the window).

(Just to make it clear: the “&” puts the other script in the background, which means the first will keep running, and the second script won’t exit when the first one does.)