UNIX Command Line

Suppose we have to run following UNIX bash shell loop construct under 'nohup'

$ for i in $(seq 20); do echo $i;./somescript.sh $i; done

Running the above loop under nohup directly will not work as 'nohup' expects a single-word command and its arguments. This is how we can run a UNIX bash shell loop construct using 'nohup'.

$ nohup sh -c 'for i in $(seq 20); do echo $i;./somescript.sh $i; done' &

From man page of 'sh'

-c               Read commands from the command_string operand instead of from the
standard input.  Special parameter 0 will be set from the command_name operand
and the positional parameters ($1, $2, etc.)  set from the remaining argument operands.

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