Background Jobs?

Bharat Mediratta bharat at computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk
Wed May 8 02:29:44 AEST 1991


In article <1991May6.213624.7652 at sbcs.sunysb.edu> pbanerji at eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Pratip K Banerji) writes:
>After a background job is completed, a message is usually displayed
>telling you that its done. For example, if I type in         
>
>          source test &
>
>It gives a "job complete message when it is finished. Is there any
>way to bypass this message?

Try:

	(source test &) >/dev/null

-Bharat
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