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[Lobster]

Trying to open a program in bash script
displaying a file (that works)
and then close or kill the program
(using Puppy Slacko 5.3.3.2)
Is it really so hard?
None of this stuff seems to work . . .

[SFR]

Hey Lobster

Have you tried: & ?

[Lobster]

and that is all there is to it . . .

Yes it works

Cructacean puts on dunce hat
stands in corner

Appreciate the help

[technosaurus]

ugg - please only use killall as a last resort

program args &
programpid=$!
... do stuff ...
kill $programpid

... and that way you won't piss off your users because you killed their other opened instance of <program> that had weeks of unsaved data opened ... in other words, don't use a machete when the right tool is a scalpel