How to keep sbt running (as a daemon process) after executing a command

Question

I want to launch scalatra server from sbt. How do I do that? The following does launch scalatra:

sbt "container:start"

But it exits immediately:

[info] starting server ...
[success] Total time: 2 s, completed Sep 12, 2015 2:39:32 PM
> [info] waiting for server to shut down...

Most preferably the whole thing would run in a nohup as a daemon process.

Answer 1

Don't do it on one line. Use two commands.

./sbt
container:start

Answer 2

sbt "; <command>; console"

does the trick. Note the initial semicolon is required.