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» Get latest stable version of the Linux kernel
» Checksum directory recursively
» Manipulate Bash sockets using /dev/tcp
» Find occurrences of a string in a large code base without firing
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I often use 'screen' to run a command that I want to leave running when I logout but sometimes I forget and kick off a long job without screen. If you want to keep these things running, the following command will close the shell keeping all subprocess running
More information on the bash man page:
disown -a && exit
More information on the bash man page:
man bash | grep -A9 "disown \["

