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Mike
Asked: 2013-03-30 08:42:37 +0800 CST

bash - fork a process without the "complete" notification

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Just a quick question that I'm having trouble Googling for some reason.

When I fork a process in bash like this:

$ mything &

And it completes 10 seconds later, it interrupts my terminal like this:

[1]+  Done          mything

Is there a way to disable this? I want to run it in the background but I want it to never come back and tell me anything, ever.

bash

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    1. disown after forking
    2. Run it in screen: screen -dm mything

    The second one has the advantage of you being able to re-attach and see the output before it finishes, if you'd like.

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  2. Try using disown...

    Try the following - which will not return text....

    sleep 5 &
disown %1

    This will never tell you the job has completed.

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  3. A subshell is probably the cleanest approach:

    ( sleep 1 & )
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