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Reputation: 511

How to hide/quit terminal while program is still running in OS X?

I'm doing my project and I need to log keystrokes system wide in macOS. So, I turned over to GitHub and found Swift-Keylogger. The only problem is I can't quit the Terminal while the program is still running.

Is there any way to not to run this in terminal or closing the terminal window instead of creating a mac app like here.

Note: There are some mac app style executables in github but they are not providing the output I want and some need additional permissions.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 503

Answers (1)

SkrewEverything
SkrewEverything

Reputation: 2523

Instead of running the executable like ./Keylogger use nohup ./Keylogger &.

You can quit the Terminal after executing the command.

To kill the Keylogger, run ps -e | grep "Keylogger" to get pid and kill -9 pid.

P.S. I thought of adding it as well as running at startup but I'm too lazy to update the repository.

Upvotes: 2

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