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disown 1 "18 Apr 2007" "SunOS 5.11" "User Commands"
NAME
disown - ksh93 built-in function to disassociate a job with the current shell
SYNOPSIS

disown [job ...]
DESCRIPTION

The ksh93 disown command prevents the current shell from sending a HUP signal to each of the specified jobs when the current shell terminates a login session.

If job is omitted, disown sends the HUP signal to the most recently started or stopped background job.

OPERANDS

The following operands are supported:

job

Specifies the job or jobs on which disown operates. Specify job as one of the following:

number

Refers to a process ID.

-number

Refers to a process group ID.

%number

Refers to a job number.

%string

Refers to a job whose name begins with string.

%?string

Refers to a job whose name contains string.

%+ or %%

Refers to the current job.

%-

Refers to the previous job.

EXIT STATUS

0

Successful completion.

>0

One or more specified jobs does not exist.

EXAMPLES

Example 1 Disowning a Job

The following example disowns job 1: 

example% disown %1
AUTHORS

David Korn, dgk@research.att.com

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface StabilityUncommitted
SEE ALSO

bg(1), jobs(1), ksh93(1), wait(1), attributes(5)