I did not know '&>' was a thing, thanks Kevin and Hans! -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com On 1/29/13 4:18 PM, "der.hans" wrote: >Am 29. Jan, 2013 schwätzte Kevin Fries so: > >moin moin Kevin, > >> I am surprised nobody gave this answer, at least as far as I saw: >> >> $ /path/to/command &> /dev/null > >A couple of us did, except we spelled it correctly :) > >'&>/dev/null' is a bashism for '>/dev/null 2>&1'. There's nothing wrong >with it for bash scripting, but I find the latter to be easier to read, >far more common and more portable, so that's what I use for teaching and >giving answers on mailing lists. > >In a bash only environment, either is fine, but when working with other >Bourne shell derivatives your syntax might not work. It might work in >zsh, but I'm pretty certain it isn't allowed in POSIX shell or ksh and it >definitely isn't in the original Bourne shell. > >A really cool feature of a good toolset is there is more than one way to >do it :). > >ciao, > >der.hans > >> Kevin >> On Jan 29, 2013 3:27 PM, "Matt Graham" wrote: >> >>> From: joe@actionline.com >>>> I still can't get either to work. >>>> James: gwenview filename.jpg > /dev/null 2>&1 & >>>> Hans: gwenview filename.jpg 2>/dev/null & >>>> >>>> Both examples work to cause gwenview to open filename.jpg without >>>> any error messages. However, when I close the terminal window, >>>> gwenview also closes. What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> To stop a process from dying when its parent tty dies, you probably >>>want >>> nohup. "nohup gwenview filename.jpg > /dev/null 2>&1 &" . The >>> xterm/konsole >>> will still be there, though you can then manually close it. >>> >>> If this approach *did* automagically close the xterm, it'd be >>>functionally >>> equivalent to just starting gwenview from the mini-commandline.... >>> >>> -- >>> Matt G / Dances With Crows >>> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> > >-- ># http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ ># When I work, I work hard. When I play, I play hard. ># When I sit, I sleep. - Embe Kugler --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss