disown
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What is disown?
disown is a shell built-in command used to remove jobs from the shell's job control. When you start a process in the background (using &), the shell keeps track of it. If you close the terminal, the shell usually sends a SIGHUP signal to these background processes, which often causes them to terminate. disown removes a process from this job control, preventing the shell from sending that signal when the terminal closes, allowing the process to continue running independently.
Free resources to learn disown
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disown: common questions
Can I learn disown in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain disown in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this disown tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 140 of 166 in the free Shell / Bash roadmap, in stage 30, Package Management. If you are new to Shell / Bash, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.