Excellent!! I thank you both!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Eli Heady <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eli.heady@gmail.com">eli.heady@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:24 PM, David J. Pryke <<a href="mailto:david-wplug@pryke.us">david-wplug@pryke.us</a>> wrote:<br>
> George Larson wrote:<br>
>> "*Konqueror .*" This has mostly the desired effect but I don't want my<br>
>> shell to freeze until I am done using the program that I have just<br>
>> started. Isn't an easy way to accomplish this escaping me?<br>
><br>
> Append an ampersand after the command:<br>
><br>
> $> Konqueror &<br>
<br>
</div>The above will let Konqueror litter your still useable shell with<br>
error messages and other output (which may be what you want at times).<br>
To keep your original shell clean, and ignore output from the<br>
just-spawned process,<br>
<br>
konqueror 2&>1 > /dev/null &<br>
<br>
2&>1 redirects standard error to standard out, > /dev/null directs<br>
stdout to /dev/null.<br>
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