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run a function or alias set in bashrc, or profile through nohup

My question is similar to this one. Using aliases with nohup

I took a lot of time customizing a function that I included in my .bashrc I'd like it to run with nohup, because I'd like to run a command several times in this fashion. 

for i in `cat mylist`; do nohup myfunction $i 'mycommand' & done

Any tips?

Solution

  • nohup will not work with functions. You need to create a shell script which wraps and executes the function. The shell script then you can run with nohup

    Like this:

    test.sh

    #!/bin/bash
function hello_world {
    echo "hello $1, $2"
}

# call function 
hello_world "$1" "$2"

    chmod +x test.sh and then call it in your for loop:

    for i in `cat mylist`; do 
    nohup ./test.sh $i 'mycommand' & 
done