Re: How to suppress async messages for background jobs

[Francesco Montorsi]

Chet Ramey ha scritto:
> 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.
how can I turn job control off without recompiling the shell ?
The only option I found is --disable-job-control for ./configure :(

THanks indeed,
Francesco