Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

[Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com>]

On 04/21/2016 11:19 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> On 17/04/2016 3:11 AM, Aero Maxx wrote:
> > > bin/mailwatcher > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> Perhaps better still...
>    bin/mailwatcher >& /dev/null &
I hadn't thought about that particular incantation.  It is one of the 
strengths of bash (and some other shells) that there are several 
different incantations that achieve similar or same results.  You get to 
speak the dialect you feel most comfortable with!!:-)

> Without specifying STDOUT or STDERR you get both.
>
> ;-)
>
> AndrewM

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Mike