Example Syntax question
masonke opened this issue · 1 comments
masonke commented
This may be basic, but would you mind expelling the syntax for the cp example? I have not seen it before and would like to understand it.
Thanks!
cp bigfile newfile & progress -mp $!
Xfennec commented
& launch the command in the background and $! is "the process ID of the most recently executed background (asynchronous) command" (extract from man bash).