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 DISOWN 1 "Apr 18, 2007"
 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 TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Interface Stability Uncommitted


 SEE ALSO

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