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Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?



On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:45:56PM +0100, mouss wrote:
> Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> >Dave Sherohman writes:
> >
> >  
> >>On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> >>    
> >>>On 1/12/07, David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>>On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>>Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output 
> >>>>>neither
> >>>>>to nohup.out  nor to any other file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>How can I do it???
> >>>>>          
> >>>>nohup <command> > /dev/null
> >>>>        
> >>>nohup <command> > /dev/null 2>/dev/null &
> >>>      
> >
> >  
> >>nohup <command> &>/dev/null &
> >>    
> >
> >Do you all mean
> >
> >nohup command > /dev/null 2>&1
> >
> >instead?
> >
> >:)
> >
> >  
> 
> or for those who don't feel confortable with redirections:
> 
> # ln -sf /dev/null nohup.out;  nohup command; rm nohup.out

Well, I wasn't aware that the OP wanted to lose his error 
messages, but then on re-reading his post it occurred to me 
that he might not want to lose anything - he doesn't want 
the output redirected so he wants it on the screen.  Have we 
all been getting it completely wrong?  ;-)

-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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