nohup command o/p redirection

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi
I am using nohup command in script(say nohup ls- ltr > somefile 2>&1 & ). I dont want any kind of output to be displayed on screen. When i tried the above nohup it still gives me some out put on screen like

[4] 2991
[3] Done >somefile 2>&1

Please you let me know what is to be done

Thanks in advance
Ammu

2 
set +m
nohup ...
3

Thanks for replying.
Still it gives me the output on the terminal

Thanks in advance
Ammu

4

You don't see 'done', but you see the first one.
This is because your shell is interactive,
use a script:

$ cat s
#! /bin/bash

nohup "$@" > nohup.log 2>&1 &

$ ./s sleep 2
$ ps
   PID TTY      TIME CMD
 17788 pts/1    0:00 bash
 17810 pts/1    0:00 sleep
 17793 pts/1    0:00 bash