Running a command as a background process/service

Question

I have a Shell command that I\'d like to run in the background and I\'ve read that this can be done by suffixing an & to the command which causes it to run as a

Answer 1

Based on this article:
http:// felixmilea.com/2014/12/running-bash-commands-background-properly/

...another good way is with screen eg:

screen -d -m -s "my session name" 

from the screen manual:

-d -m
Start screen in detached mode. This creates a new session but doesn't attach to it. This is useful for system startup scripts.

i.e. you can close your terminal, the process will continue running (unlike with &)

with screen you can also reattach to the session later