[GRASS-dev] running commands in background

[Michael Barton]

Here is a question I¹ve just run into as part of our agent modeling project.

I know that if you launch a command by only typing the command name (no
arguments) followed by Œ&¹, you can get the command gui to launch modally.
Then this command can process while you launch another command.

Is there any way to get a command launched from the command line (i.e., with
arguments) to run in the background so that you can launch another command
from the command prompt?

I¹ve tried... 

[command] [arguments] &
r.what input=precip_9400 east_north=749204,3614262 &

and this doesn¹t seem to work.

Michael
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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
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