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Nov 8, 2019

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OP

Level 8

php artisan serve & - what does '&' do?

So I have seen this in various CI scripts - what does the '&' mean at the end?

php artisan serve &

Thanks.

Best Answer

Level 104

It runs the process in the background in Unix systems.

OP

Level 8

Thanks.

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