Silent Background Process

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I run a background process using '&'. (see example below)

How can I suppress the '&' messages that are written to my console?? (lines 2 and 5)

Current Output...
1 > ak@LATU ~> ls &
2 > [1] 4000
3 > ak@LATU ~>
4 > apps/ dl/ gems/ todo/ tst/ util/
5 > [1]+ Done ls -FC
6 > ak@LATU ~>

Desired Output...
1 > ak@LATU ~> ls &
2 > ak@LATU ~>
3 > apps/ dl/ gems/ todo/ tst/ util/
4 > ak@LATU ~>

Thanks in advance !!

2

ok ok I found the solution:

(ls &) 2> /dev/null

This suppresses only the '&' messages

(ls &) 2> /dev/null > /dev/null

This suppresses the '&' messages AND the output from 'ls'

:slight_smile: