[Modified Tuesday, Dec 3rd 2013 by sdesk86]
To run an application in the background, you can use the nohup command.
Usually, windowed application behavior is not desired so that can be disabled with the unsetenv DISPLAY command
Typical usage would use the following commands: (in this case we would like to run matlab in the background
unsetenv DISPLAY
nohup matlab < infile > outfile &
(Note the redirection and the ampersand at the end)
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