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Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,21 @@ one is missing. Autodaemonization is enabled by default, so you don't
need to do anything special to use it, though you can control its behavior
with the `nodaemonize` config option and the `-d/-D` command line switches.

### Installing with Homebrew

On macOS, `shpool` can be installed via the project's [Homebrew tap](https://github.com/shell-pool/homebrew-shpool):

```
brew tap shell-pool/shpool
brew install shpool
```

To have the daemon start automatically at login:

```
brew services start shpool
```

## Usage

Generally `shpool` is used to provide persistent sessions when
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