Question

It’s been a while since I’ve worked with Unix commands, I want a simple .sh script to run detached using screen that will call another .sh script using screen which will be detached as well and I want the original script to continue to run through the rest of its program. Both scripts should be able to run when the terminal is closed.

My idea is to use this in programA.sh

screen -dmS ProgB bash programB.sh

And at the terminal I use this to run programA

screen -dmS ProgA bash programA.sh

I’ve got the first program to run and show up in screen -ls
but the second program doesn’t show up.

Any ideas on why it failed?

Answer 1

you can alternatively use:

setsid yourCmd