DISOWN(1) User Commands DISOWN(1)

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(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


+--------------------+-----------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+--------------------+-----------------+
|Interface Stability | Uncommitted |
+--------------------+-----------------+

SEE ALSO

bg(1), jobs(1), ksh93(1), wait(1), attributes(7)

April 18, 2007 DISOWN(1)