Using Nohup

PROBLEM
You have a Unix script which needs to run for a long time (or endlessly), but you don't want to lock your session.

SOLUTION

Use nohup to run the command, this will allow you to continue working in your session 

So how do we view the job or kill it? 

You can use "top", or for a slightly better interface use htop 

(To get use "sudo apt-get install htop" 

To us: type "htop" 

And observe your script running