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    Thanks for this! I had a job running and thought I wasn't going to be able to keep it going because I hadn't used & when I started it. This seems to work great! Commented Mar 25, 2012 at 15:42
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    This is amazing! I never knew Linux could let you transfer control of active processes like this. I was afraid my battery would die while SSH'ing into my server in the middle of a long running process, and this was the answer for me! Commented May 20, 2014 at 21:05
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    Does a disowned process dies if it needs stderr or stdout? Compared to nohup. Commented Sep 26, 2021 at 17:12