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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Quieting & background jobs in sh and ksh
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Date: 2 Oct 89 15:17:03 GMT
References: <4393@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
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In article <4393@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart) writes:
+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?

This will work for ksh and sh:

	(foo &) > /dev/null 2>&1
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