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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (literature.cafe)
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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

() creates a subshell, and & runs the command in background. The $@ means everything after the first argument, so the <command> is executed like a normal command. I am not sure why this works, but it has worked more consistently than nohup, disown, and it's a lot shorter than most other solutions.