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.. _cmd-disown:
disown - remove a process from the list of jobs
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Synopsis
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``disown [ PID ... ]``
Description
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``disown`` removes the specified `job <index.html#syntax-job-control>`__ from the list of jobs. The job itself continues to exist, but fish does not keep track of it any longer.
Jobs in the list of jobs are sent a hang-up signal when fish terminates, which usually causes the job to terminate; ``disown`` allows these processes to continue regardless.
If no process is specified, the most recently-used job is removed (like ``bg`` and ``fg``). If one or more PIDs are specified, jobs with the specified process IDs are removed from the job list. Invalid jobs are ignored and a warning is printed.
If a job is stopped, it is sent a signal to continue running, and a warning is printed. It is not possible to use the ``bg`` builtin to continue a job once it has been disowned.
``disown`` returns 0 if all specified jobs were disowned successfully, and 1 if any problems were encountered.
Example
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``firefox &; disown`` will start the Firefox web browser in the background and remove it from the job list, meaning it will not be closed when the fish process is closed.
``disown (jobs -p)`` removes all jobs from the job list without terminating them.