<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:39 PM, unsolicited <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:unsolicited@swiz.ca" target="_blank">unsolicited@swiz.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>[...] Extending your note things become<br>
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{cmd} > /dev/null 2>&1 <&1 &<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Assuming you're otherwise happy with this, it appears that using the bash-builtin `disown` prevents the exit status from being written to your terminal.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">You could always stick a function in your ~/.bashrc to simulate the `start` command:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">start()<br>{<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">    ${1} >/dev/null 2>&1 <&1 &<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">    disown<br>}<br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Chris Irwin<br><<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca" target="_blank">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>></div>

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