how to include commands after calling nohup in ksh script

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dear hpux gurus,
i would like to remove thousand of directories inside this folder. i created ksh script.how to execute the command using nohup. currently i'm using like this:
# ./script &
whenever i exit the session, it will exit this session too. hope to hear from you. thank you.
should u have any comments to my script or anything, would appreciate your advice. thank you


# more script
#!/usr/bin/ksh
cd /restore_01/20080620old/item1/data
rm -R 990
rm -R 987
rm -R 986
rm -R 985
rm -R 984
rm -R 983

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

In your case, one way of executing this would be:

nohup ./script &

This will run the script in background and immune to logout/exits.

Regards
Vijay Chinnasamy

[Vijaya Kumar_3]

Regarding your command script, you may want to use the -f switch for rm command. Please be cautious though. Along with -R, you cane use it like this "-Rf". f - forcibly remove. Please be cautios using this option (For example, make sure you are not in root folder etc). Also, to improve a script little bit, you may want to check the exit status of the cd command first, and then run the rm command... Something like this:

cd /restore_01/20080620old/item1/data

if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]
then
rm -Rf 990
else
exit 1
fi

[Kenan Erdey]

hi,

except nohup you can use (./script & ). this opens a sub shell and puts it to background.

Kenan.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

I think you can use like this

# nohup script &

Suraj

[Dennis Handly]

You could also optimize your rm command to:
rm -rf 990 987 986 985 984 983 ...