Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!rutgers!att!cbnewsh!wcs From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Quieting & background jobs in sh and ksh Message-ID: <4393@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> Date: 30 Sep 89 05:48:09 GMT Reply-To: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) Distribution: comp Organization: Bell Labs Random Organization Name Generator Lines: 12 I want to put a command into background without getting the process-id echoed by the shell. I've tried variants on nohup foo >/dev/null 2>&1 & but still get the process-id back in /bin/sh and the [jobnumber] pid in ksh. Is there any way to silence this? Thanks; Bill -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # also found at 201-271-4712 tarpon.att.com!wcs Somerset 4C423 Corp. Park 3 # More Colombians die from American tobacco than Americans from Colombian coke.