How to close terminal without killing running processes on Linux

For example, you are running time-consuming processes and you don’t want that job killed due to terminal closed. To handle this situation, you can simply remove a job from an active job table. so that the job isn’t killed when the terminal closes.

Instructions

1. Press CTRL + Z to suspend current running process.

zip -q -r home.zip *

^Z
[1]+  Stopped                 zip -q -r home.zip *

2. Then run the stopped process in the background by running bg command. It will put last stopped process to background.

bg

[1]+ zip -q -r home.zip * &

3. Finally, remove above job from the table of active job. Use [disown -h jobspec] where [jobspec] is the job number of background running job. Like %1 for the first running job.

disown -h %1

Note: Here 1 is the job ID of background running job. You can also use “jobs -l” command to find job id.