Previously I described how to use GNU screen to run bash commands in background. In addition to that, if sometimes it happens that a detached command terminates before completion, we would like to have logs for that command, e.g., in order to determine why and when an error occurred. This post explains how to log the progress of a command […]
Sometimes running a bash command on the server can take several hours to complete. In such cases you would like to run the command in background and close the terminal from which the command was started (without terminating the process itself). The best way to achieve that is to use GNU screen’s detaching utility. In order to run and detach […]
I recently read an excellent introductory Bash tutorial on Dev.to by Sahil Bondre. It is a really great tutorial on shell scripting basics, but I remember when I was beginning my adventure with shell scripting and I became fascinated with Bash. In fact, I was a bit over-fascinated with it. With my neuroimaging scripts becoming more and more complex, I […]