Shell script to open an application and kill itself without closing application

Question

I have a script to open chrome with some custom arguments:

/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --use-system-ssl --use-spdy=off

I need to run this and immediately close the process running it without killing chrome. Is there some way to do this?

kchoose2 · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-15 20:02:59Z

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Say your script was run_chrome. Then you could do {run_chrome &} && disown;

answered Dec 15, 2015 at 20:02

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there IS something like "disown". Thats what I needed, thanks

Alicja Kario · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-15 20:14:55Z

Just run it in background/fork:

#/bin/sh /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --use-system-ssl --use-spdy=off &