Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:14:06 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Message-ID: <16545.38526.682883.156432@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <004001c437ce$2e3b37c0$6401a8c0@Nomad> References: <20040512030140.61217.qmail@web20501.mail.yahoo.com> <004001c437ce$2e3b37c0$6401a8c0@Nomad>
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Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with > &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 && I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previous command completed without error"? > An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by > hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by > pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system Robert Huff
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