How to redirect the output of an application in background to /dev/null
You use:
yourcommand > /dev/null 2>&1
If it should run in the Background add an &
yourcommand > /dev/null 2>&1 &
>/dev/null 2>&1
means redirect stdout
to /dev/null
AND stderr
to the place where stdout
points at that time
If you want stderr
to occur on console and only stdout
going to /dev/null
you can use:
yourcommand 2>&1 > /dev/null
In this case stderr
is redirected to stdout
(e.g. your console) and afterwards the original stdout
is redirected to /dev/null
If the program should not terminate you can use:
nohup yourcommand &
Without any parameter all output lands in nohup.out
These will also redirect both:
yourcommand &> /dev/null
yourcommand >& /dev/null
though the bash manual says the first is preferred.