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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Just type what you want in a terminal window, like if I am in a terminal window and I want to run firefox. I type firefox, and it opens. If you hit <ctrl>+c firefox closes, if you type firefox &Nn then it opens the progran, and returns control to the shell.<br><br><div>> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:10:47 -0400<br>> From: unsolicited@swiz.ca<br>> To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> Subject: [kwlug-disc] Linux 'equivalent' to Windows 'start' command.<br>> <br>> In windows, I frequently start gui programs from the cmd prompt via <br>> start {whatever}. One of my favourites is 'start .' which starts windows <br>> explorer at the current directory.<br>> <br>> When I do this I not only don't care about 'job' status, standard <br>> in/out/err, I don't want to see it. Ever.<br>> <br>> What is the equivalent in Linux?<br>> <br>> {blah} < /dev/null > /dev/null 2> /dev/null &<br>> <br>> doesn't do it. I frequently still get output in my console window, let <br>> alone job status messages. Including, when I close the window, I get the <br>> status message in the console, frequently moving me from the prompt - <br>> which means when I come back to it I think the prior command is still in <br>> progress.<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> kwlug-disc mailing list<br>> kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<br>> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<br></div> </div></body>
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