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disown

ShellPackage: bash

Detaches a job from the shell that started it, so it survives the terminal closing. A rescue, not a method: a service that has to run needs a systemd unit.

What its options do in the lessons

From the same glossary the lessons render under their commands, so the two cannot disagree.

disown -h
Does not remove the job from the list, but shields it from the SIGHUP sent when the terminal closes. Without -h, disown removes it from the shell entirely.

Lessons that teach it