Re: Hiding command output

[Marco Ippolito]

> Richard Stallman showed me

Where?

> ">& /dev/null", which worked for a command like
> "echo", but not for a command like "pydoc curses > file.txt”.

Try > /dev/null 2>&1 &

Example:

{ >&2 echo stderr; echo stdout; }    > /dev/null 2>&1 &