# ansible + &

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible/20314>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [January 22, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible/20314 "2016-01-22T13:43:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible/20314/1 "2016-01-22T13:43:46Z")

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I’d like to start jmeter on remote host and run the command in background but the command “&” doesn’t work

this playbook starts jmeter :  
**_- hosts: JMETER\_REMOTE\_VM_**  
**_sudo: True_**  
**_user: xxxx_**  
**_tasks:_**  
**_- shell: chdir=~/apache-jmeter-2.13/bin/ bash jmeter-server_**

but this one doesn’t :  
**_- hosts: JMETER\_REMOTE\_VM_**  
**_sudo: True_**  
**_user: xxxx_**  
**_tasks:_**  
**_- shell: chdir=~/apache-jmeter-2.13/bin/ bash jmeter-server &_**