One of the simplest ways to run a command in the background is by appending an ampersand (&) at the end of the command. This method instructs the shell to execute the command as a separate background ...

A priority assigned by the operating system to programs running in a multitasking environment, which is a common mode of operation. The foreground contains the applications the user is working on, and ...

I have a perl script that runs completely fine in the foreground, but will either hang or exit when run in background mode (tcsh shell in UNIX). The script calls three other scripts:<BR><BR>Script 1: ...