Scratch

bobbybee wrote:

I have a program (let's call it ./program) I need to take the programs output and redirect it to a file

You want to redirect stdout to a file? I think that's "./program > file.txt" as you did.

but I also need to create a new thread/job/process for my program.

Are you trying to run the process in the background on the current terminal? If so, I think that's "./program &". This will be killed when you exit/kill the current terminal process, though.

So yeah: I'd have thought "./program > file.txt &" would do it.

If you want it to survive bash/your terminal dying, you may want to look at something like the screen command. 

PS: "program" is an executable file in the current directory, right?

Last edited by blob8108 (2012-05-05 06:18:18)

Alright. thanks.