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Re: [mg4623] Background jobs
Posted:
Aug 22, 1996 3:29 AM
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> Dear All,
>
> I would like to start a Mathematica job as a background process.
> I assumed this would be easy, despite the fact that I couldn't find
> anything about this in the manual. However, the -run option doesn't seem
> to work. I'm using version 2.2.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Loris
>
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There is nothing inherent to Mathematica to make it run as a background
process. This is the operating system's job. So, the question you need
to ask is, "how would I make *any* program run as a background process?".
The -run argument has nothing to do with the background process...it simply
instructs Mathematica what to do when it first starts up. Thus, you could
pass it a command through -run which tells it to run a package. If you
want Mathematica to quit gracefully at the end, then you'd put a Quit[]
command at the end of your package.
On a Unix-based system, you could run Mathematica in the background by
simply attaching an & after your command-line. For example:
math < infile > outfile &
(note that in Unix, you can also use redirection as I did for input and output
files...I find that somewhat easier to remember than the -run argument).
Sincerely,
John Fultz
jfultz@wolfram.com
Applications Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
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