gbg 1.0.1

A simple tool to run commands in the background
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gbg

Go (to) BackGround, a hypersimple cli tool to run any command in the background from your shell.

Install

cargo install gbg

Usage

gbg [-l LOG_FILE] <command> [args...]
  • Without -l the command's output is discarded (/dev/null).
  • With -l the command's stdout & stderr are appended to LOG_FILE.

Examples

# Run a long-running script and discard output

gbg python long_task.py


# Run a long-running script and log everything to script.log

gbg -l script.log python long_task.py

Built for Linux & macOS. Requires the Rust installed