with sh or babashka/process how can I launch another process and then detach? Like fire and forget.

@rickheere babashka/process already does that automatically by being async. with sh this isn't possible since it waits for the process to finish

detaching isn't exactly the same as async. on unix-like systems it's usually done by fork + setsid + fork

unless that's not what they mean 😅

it's technically something different, no doubt, but the user is happy :)

some day my knowledge of this stuff will become useful again! today is not that day

Yeah in this case I just want the bb script to launch an application and then have my terminal back. So good enough for me at this moment.

yeah the only gotcha there is if your terminal receives SIGHUP and it passes that on to child process groups

but it sounds like that's not an issue here

A markdown library by @asko304 that also works in bb: https://github.com/askonomm/clarktown

Another interesting thing that works with babashka: https://twitter.com/borkdude/status/1511829490732777477