csh background processes

Jonathan I. Kamens jik at athena.mit.edu
Mon Mar 4 11:31:42 AEST 1991


In article <9103011918.AA23374 at geech.ai.mit.edu>, has8wwa at CABELL.VCU.EDU writes:
|>      Is it possible to, in csh, start a background process, while supressing
|> the usual notification that the process was started.

  Put it in parentheses.  Observe:

	% echo foo &
	foo
	[1] 17727
	[1]    Done                 echo foo
	% (echo foo &)
	foo
	% 

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