Launch Program From Within Script

[BlackVeils]

its simple really, and i tried a few different things, but cant get it to work.

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#!/bin/bash

echo -e "\n\n\n\e[1m\e[94m\e[2m      Deleting History...\n\n\n"

killall SpiderOak

sleep 5

/usr/bin/SpiderOak --purge-historical-versions all

/usr/bin/SpiderOak &

echo -e "\n\n\n\e[1m\e[94m\e[2m      END\n\n\n"

how do i get SpiderOak program to open after history has been deleted, yet still have the last echo, and be able to close terminal window without closing SpiderOak?

[Pilosopong Tasyo]

...and be able to close terminal window without closing SpiderOak?

nohup or disown should suffice:

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nohup /usr/bin/SpiderOak &

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/usr/bin/SpiderOak &
disown

[BlackVeils]

great in theory. i tried this to test after nohup and disown didnt work:

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/usr/bin/SpiderOak &
disown

sleep 10

echo -e "\n\n\n\e[1m\e[94m\e[2m      END\n\n\n"

when echo runs or its the end of script, spideroak gets closed. without "sleep" (for the sake of testing) spideroak doesnt get a chance to load.

[bjornmu]

I would often use something like this (even made a small script that does it):

MyProgram < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &

[BlackVeils]

i did some more testing of this principle, killing and launching a program, i even tried a different program, my music player audacious.

what i have found is that the issue is related to running the script from a terminal. if its run without terminal, everything works, programs can be opened and closed, no problem.

which i find odd, and not having a strategic mind, i dont know how people get around that. in this case i actually dont need the window of feedback, i was being daft.

so i have learned i can launch programs from a script, if the script is not run from a terminal.