Quieting & background jobs in sh and ksh

[Lawrence V. Cipriani]

In article <4393 at cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs at cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart) writes:
+I want to put a command into background without getting the process-id
+echoed by the shell.  I've tried variants on
+	nohup foo >/dev/null 2>&1 &
+but still get the process-id back in /bin/sh and the [jobnumber] pid
+in ksh.  Is there any way to silence this?

This will work for ksh and sh:

	(foo &) > /dev/null 2>&1
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