title: run inotifywait on background
body: <p>I have this code copied from linuxaria.com as example and work just fine on my case the problem is when I exit from terminal inotifywait stop. I want run on back ground even after exit the terminal. how I can do that?</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/bin/sh
  
  # CONFIGURATION
  DIR="/tmp"
  EVENTS="create"
  FIFO="/tmp/inotify2.fifo"
  
  
  on_event() {
    local date=$1
    local time=$2
    local file=$3
  
    sleep 5
  
    echo "$date $time Fichier créé: $file"
  }
  
  # MAIN
  if [ ! -e "$FIFO" ]
  then
    mkfifo "$FIFO"
  fi
  
  inotifywait -m -e "$EVENTS" --timefmt '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' --format '%T %f' "$DIR" &gt;       "$FIFO" &amp;
  INOTIFY_PID=$!
  
  
  while read date time file
  do
    on_event $date $time $file &amp;
  done &lt; "$FIFO"
  </code></pre>