Dan Browning wrote the following:
>
> I'm building my .bashrc to do some interesting things (paste cal & df). And
> I would like it to run some processes in the background at login. But if I
> do &, then after a little while, I get annoying "[1]+ Done ..." messages.
> Can I stop these?
(command &)
This will, from memory, spwan a subshell and execute the command. Check
the manpage on bash though to see if that's right. The above does definatel
work in suppressing the msgs you were talking about.
> I know I can do mesg off, but that would disable ALL messages, right? (I
> like "You have mail.")
mesg no is to disable talk req and writes to your terminal by other users.
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