One of the simplest ways to run a command in the background is by appending an ampersand (&) at the end of the command. This method instructs the shell to execute the command as a separate background ...

That awk command in between the first and second pipes would reduce the output from the who command to just the first string on every line. The sort command then arranges these in alphabetical order ...

I'm trying to run Cisco's command-line VPN client in the background so I don't have to have the GUI open all the time. Just putting an ampersand after it doesn't work since, when I connect to the ...