Re: How to suppress async messages for background jobs

[Chet Ramey]

Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hi,
>   when using & at the end of a command, bash prints messages like:
> 
>   frm@genius:~$ kwrite &
> =>[1] 20986
>   frm@genius:~$
> =>[1]+  Done                    kwrite
>   frm@genius:~$
> 
> is there a way to tell bash not to print those lines marked with => ?
> I could not find any command searching in the bash manual or googling...

These messages will be printed unless job control is turned off.


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