Allow Commands To Run After Backgrounding Django Runserver Command In A Bash Script?

I'm writing a 'simple' script to start up the django server, background it then start up firefox while I dev. I've seen the

Solution 1:

You can put all your command in parenthesis like this :

(python ./manage.py runserver --settings=project.settings.$SETTING_ENV < /dev/null &)

When you run a command between parentheses it will create a new sub-shell so when you will quit the shell the command will continues to run.

Or you can also use disown or nohup :

python ./manage.py runserver --settings=project.settings.$SETTING_ENV < /dev/null & 
disown

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nohup python ./manage.py runserver --settings=project.settings.$SETTING_ENV < /dev/null &

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