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What is an advantage of executing a process in background?

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There r two main advantage :
1.you can use console to execute your command.
2.More importantly if one is connected through remote
console and as there is no controlling terminal attached to
background process even if your terminal get disconnected
the process continues (with help of nohup in shell script
or by using setsid in C)

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