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Running jar files in background in ssh window

By: Sachi Printer Friendly Format    

When you need to run a java application in the background in unix, you can use the screen command. When you run the screen command in your ssh window, even after you close the window, your application will still run. In fact this will work for any application not only java application.

screen -A -m -d -S trackapps java -jar putyourjarfilenamehere.jar