I'd like to start a command from the cmd
command line in Windows 7 and have it run completely in the background.
Basically I'm looking for the functionality that the *nix &
provides.
So far I've found start
which starts the command in a new cmd
window, and I've found start /B
which doesn't open a new window, drops back to the command line, but keeps the process attached to the cmd.exe
process from which it was started (so if you close cmd.exe
it kills the process).
Is this possible? It's so simple in *nix I'm having trouble believing it can't be done, but who knows.