Background tasks in build environments - Amazon CodeBuild
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Background tasks in build environments

You can run background tasks in build environments. To do this, in your buildspec, use the nohup command to run a command as a task in the background, even if the build process exits the shell. Use the disown command to forcibly stop a running background task.

Examples:

  • Start a background process and wait for it to complete later:

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nohup sleep 30 & echo $! > pidfile
…
wait $(cat pidfile)

  • Start a background process and do not wait for it to ever complete:

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nohup sleep 30 & disown $!

  • Start a background process and kill it later:

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nohup sleep 30 & echo $! > pidfile
…
kill $(cat pidfile)