Running command in background using cygwin from Windows cmd

command-line, cygwin, windows

Solution

Found the solution:

start <command> /B

`start` is a windows command, do a `help start` for more info

Alternatively and for my case

hg serve --daemon

or

hg serve -d

will do the trick

Problem

I use cygwin from my Windows command line, I've always done everything quite happily except being able to run something in the background (i.e. putting `&` at the end of a command). Just to give you more context, I want to be able to start a Mercurial web server and still be able to keep using the command line window and even closing it without killing the server. For example: ``` >hg serve & listening at http://localhost:8000/ (bound to *:8000) >echo "Still able to do this" ``` Any workarounds to this?

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