I would still suggest using nohup atleast if the user closes the terminal you will still be processing.

You can use nohup as follows so your users can see the output of your script.


nohup...

Im not to certain, would depend on your terminal. there might be a way of stopping ppl closing the window in certain terminals.

I know what your thinking, You and everyone else has always wanted a clock that sits at the top of your command prompt and tells you the time.

Why ?

I made this in first year when i spent...

there is no real way to stop a user from closing a window using a shell script.

but if your worring about your shell script being half way through something when they close the window.

use
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If i understand what your trying to do try atrm

I just attempted this as a small test

atrm now `echo hello >> hello2`

so i guess you should use

atrm now +3 days `/path/scriptname -foo...

get a command and run it ?


#!/bin/bash
read command
$command


should work