[wplug] Konsole

[Eli Heady]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David J. Pryke <david-wplug at pryke.us> wrote:
> George Larson wrote:
>> "*Konqueror .*"  This has mostly the desired effect but I don't want my
>> shell to freeze until I am done using the program that I have just
>> started.  Isn't an easy way to accomplish this escaping me?
>
> Append an ampersand after the command:
>
> $> Konqueror &

The above will let Konqueror litter your still useable shell with
error messages and other output (which may be what you want at times).
To keep your original shell clean, and ignore output from the
just-spawned process,

konqueror 2&>1 > /dev/null &

2&>1 redirects standard error to standard out, > /dev/null directs
stdout to /dev/null.