Unwanted output

[Larry Wall]

In article <1990Mar1.234155.15705 at sun.soe.clarkson.edu> elmo at spock.adm.clarkson.edu (Paul B. Davidson,ERCTERM,2682292,2862026) writes:
: Ok, a quick, and probably simple question for you UN*X ppl out there:
: I'm writing a short csh script that parses the command line, then
: invokes a utility with the parsed command line.
: The script backrounds the utility, and exits.
: The problem is that when it backrounds (splatutil &), csh prints the job
: and process numbers of the backround process, something that I do not
: want to appear.

If you just want to keep the output hooked to the terminal, you can say

	(command >/dev/tty &) >/dev/null

If you want to be able to redirect the output of your script you'll have
to get a little fancier.  One could go wild with redirections in sh, but
here's the perl way:

	perl -e 'fork || exec "command";'

Larry Wall
lwall at jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov