OT: command-line launch firefox problem

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

# Cut'n paste the 4 lines below: 

mkdir ~/bin/
echo "#! $(which bash)"|sed -e 's/ //g' > ~/bin/ff
echo 'nohup firefox >/dev/null 2>&1 &' >> ~/bin/ff
chmod 755 ~/bin/ff 

#Then:
. .bashrc
ff 

# Enjoy...   :)
# ET 


joe at actionline.com writes: 

> ET wrote:
>> You can't 'correct' problems, developers would have to do that.
>> But you can hide them:
>> firefox >/dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
> Thanks ET ... 
> 
> So, I tried this: 
> 
> firefox test.htm >/dev/null 2>&1 & 
> 
> And that seemed to mask the problem,
> although I still wonder if there might
> be some way to further address the problem. 
> 
> Also, I wonder if there is a way to make
> a script named 'ff' so I could just do: 
> 
> ff test.htm 
> 
> to get that same /dev/null result? 
> 
> Joe 
> 
>  
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