Re: How to suppress async messages for background jobs

[Paul Jarc]

Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828@yahoo.it> wrote:
>   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 => ?

If you don't need to refer to the process as %1, etc.:
$ ( kwrite & )

I have this in my .bashrc to I can use alt-Enter to run something in
the background without keeping track of it as a shell job:
bind $'Meta-RET: "\001(\005&)\r"'


paul