Re: Execute all processes in the background from bash.

From: Doug Freyburger (dfreybur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: 19 May 2004 10:12:50 -0700

guerrilla_thought wrote:
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to prepend "time" and append "&" to all
> commands that I execute in bash. For example I'd like
> $ mozilla
> to exapand to
> $ time mozilla &
> to time it and execute it in the background. Anyone know if this is
> possible using bash, maybe with environment variables? It's quite
> inconvenient to type time before and & after every command that I execute.

All/every? I use ls, cd and so on often enough that would be a
disaster for me.

When I intend to run a command very often, I write a small script
and name it "x" somewhere in my path. It would be something like:

#! /bin/bash
time ${1} &
exit

Then I would type most of my commands normally and "x mozilla".
Since you mentioned mozilla, you probably want to use "nohup" rather
than "time".

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