[olug] BASH shell programming question.

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Jay Swackhamer said:
>
>
> to get rid of all output
>
> MYCOMMAND > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>
> to capture screen output, and disconnect the process from your
> terminal(just in case the ssh session drops) put a nohup infront
>
> i.e.
> nohup wget
> ftp://ftp.webtrek.com/pub/mirrors/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.2-2003-06-06-EN.iso
> &
>> wget_knoppix.log
screen works well for the same effect of keeping a download going if your
ssh is dropped.  I really dig screen.

-jeff