Kostas Sfakiotakis wrote:
Greetings ,
Rick Stevens wrote:
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Put an ampersand after your command to run it in the background. For
example, you can type this in console:
gedit &
Now if you close the console, gedit will still be running.
Better yet:
gedit >/dev/null 2>&1 &
(redirect both stdout and stderr to /dev/null and run program in
background).
Rick, by sending both stdout and stderr to /dev/null wouldn't you
prevent gedit ( or whatever the application is ) from printing an error
message should an error condition, or even an application crash occur ?
Yes, it would, but so does closing the console. If one needs to save
stdout and stderr, they could be directed to files instead of /dev/null
or the program could be run under "nohup":
nohup gedit &
in which case stdout and stderr get sent to "current_dir/nohup.out".
See nohup(1).
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