Jeff Chua schrieb: > The man page mentioned that 'set -m' should print 'a line containing > their status upon their completion' ... which should imply 'set +m' > should NOT print the status. > > Attached is a patch to 'silent' bash so that it won't print the status > when 'Monitor mode' is off (set +m). > > If this is not the right place to do this, please suggest an alternative > to silent bash when 'kill %!' is executed. > > > Thanks, > Jeff
A workaround is to diswon the monster. But yes, I also stumbled over this once. See http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/snipplets/kill_bg_job_without_message J.