Reputation: 55779
Given the following bash script, I would like the second step (the http-server invocation) to be run in the background.
The following appears to create a background process before the grunt call completes successfully, which is unexpected.
grunt build && http-server ./dist/artifacts -p 11111 &
I want the grunt step to run to successful completion, and then for the http-server call to be made with it running in the background.
What am I doing wrong?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 45
Reputation: 74695
You can use { }
around the part that you would like to be backgrounded:
grunt build && { http-server ./dist/artifacts -p 11111 & }
The curly braces create a block around the command after the &&
, which means that the the &
only backgrounds this part.
There is more about using { }
for this purpose in the advanced bash scripting guide.
Upvotes: 3