[plug] Bash "Processing" Script

[James Devenish]

In message <20040611043318.GA11731 at postoffice.wa.bom.gov.au>
on Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:33:18PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:02:37PM +0800, Jay Turner wrote:
>   while true ; do

Point of trivia, with reference to one of Jay's earlier e-mails: the
'while true ; do' should be functionally equivalent to 'while : ; do'.

> Plus you don't need to run dd background, so you don't miss out on
> error messages like you do with the solutions that to ">/dev/null
> 2>&1".

Good idea. But while I don't dispute the merits of running in the
foreground, why do you associate "background" with ">/dev/null 2>&1"?