Can a Bourn Shell Script put itself in the background?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	So, can I make a shell script background itself after
> starting?

You could run all your code in a sub-shell:
#!/bin/sh
(
	#your script here
) &

or in a shell function:
old_script()
{
	#your script here
}

old_script $* &

Perhaps the second way requires less code
re-factoring...

Nikos