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making "ssh localhost 'sleep 10'" launch command in background

ssh localhost 'sleep 10' takes 10s to run so I was thinking what if I used nohup and &. Unfortunately, that didn't make a difference.

bash -c "nohup sleep 10 2> /dev/null &" returns immediately so I tried ssh localhost 'nohup sleep 10 2> /dev/null &'but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • For nohup to work as you expect you also need to redirect stdout:

    ssh localhost 'nohup sleep 10 > /dev/null 2>&1 &'
# OR
ssh localhost 'nohup sleep 10 >& /dev/null &'