Questions tagged [disown]

Question related to the "disown" builtin command from shells like bash, zsh or ksh.

Use the tag for question related to the non-standard "disown" builtin from some advanced shells like bash, zsh or ksh, to which (just like to its friend) marvelous properties well beyond its capabilities are assigned by the common Unix folklore.

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How do I kill a process created with disown?

I wanted to keep a program, redshift, running in the background instead of having to keep a terminal constantly opened. I learned from a forum that I can do this by typing $ redshift & followed by $ disown. However, I can't figure how to stop this…