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

For advanced job control with bash, you should look into the commands jobs bg and fg.

However, it seems like you're not really interested in running the command in the background. What you want to do is launch the command at startup. The way to do this varies depending on the Unix system you use, but try to look into the rc family of files (/etc/rc.local for example on Ubuntu). They contain scripts that will be executed after the init script.