Thanks a lot for pointing this out, Allan. So now if I write

(matlab -nosplash -nodesktop < in &> out) &>/dev/null &

inside a TM command it's letting the command exit while MATLAB continues running in the background. I'll have to continue fiddling with this later today.

-Daniel

On Nov 4, 2010, at 3:17 PM, textmate-request@lists.macromates.com wrote:

From: Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org To: TextMate users textmate@lists.macromates.com Subject: [TxMt] Re: Starting a background process from a command Message-ID: AA883E0B-D3FC-47E4-9CDC-1AEE165AE82B@textmate.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes

On 4 Nov 2010, at 14:30, Daniel Grady wrote:

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a TM command that will set up some FIFOs, launch a process connected to those, and then the command will exit [...] when I try to implement this inside a TM command, the command doesn't exit until the launched process also exits.

This is because TextMate will wait till your process close stdout/error.

We have a ruby wrapper for this (which catch exceptions), for more info: http://wiki.macromates.com/HowTo/RunCommandInBackground