If I close a terminal does it kill the processes inside of it?

Question

If I am in the middle of using the terminal, say to apt-get something;

If I click the x / close button, does the Terminal continue to run in the background?

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To afraid to try it, cause I don't want to have to start the process all over again...

Has anyone accidentally done it?

If you close the terminal you will kill any processes you started with it. But you can break this link with the disown command see duplicate question. — Warren Hill, Sep 27 '13 at 08:01

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '13 at 07:21

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No, the Terminal will be closed, then the bash process will terminate (because of SIGHUP), then apt-get will terminate in turn.

answered Sep 27 '13 at 07:21

ignis

@ingis Thank you for the answer. I have always wondered that... – SoCalDiegoRob Sep 27 '13 at 07:25

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