Quietly launching things into the background

lorddevi · n00b Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 10

How does one launch a program into the background using & nice and quietly?

I've tried to use something like the following and a few variations, but it's not working...:

program & > /dev/null 2>&1

All I want to do be able to do is not have those annoying [2343] PID notices pop up...

johnmc · Posted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 2:07 pm Post subject:

"program > /dev/null 2>&1 &" is what I do.

I don't know how to eliminate the job completion notices, other than to quit the launching shell.

-John
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