[plug] Bash "Processing" Script

[Shayne O'Neill]

nohup ./rararara &

"leave me be little process"

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Shayne O'Neill. http://www.perthimc.asn.au

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Russell Steicke wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:39:04PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > 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'.
>
> And slightly quicker, since : is a shell builtin.
>
> > > 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"?
>
> Umm, I don't.  That was a slip.  This:
>
>   foo >/dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> seems fairly common when people want to run something asynchronously and
> not have the terminal bothered with messages.  But I don't like the idea
> of completely ignoring error messages from a process, which is the point
> of what I said (was trying to say), and is also the reason I'd prefer to
> run dd synchronously.
>
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> --
> Russell Steicke
>
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