How to run a command in the background and get no output?

Sorry this is a bit late but found the ideal solution for somple commands where you don't want any standard or error output (credit where it's due: http://felixmilea.com/2014/12/running-bash-commands-background-properly/)

This redirects output to null and keeps screen clear:

command &>/dev/null &

Run in a subshell to remove notifications and close STDOUT and STDERR:

(&>/dev/null script.sh &)

Redirect the output to a file like this:

./a.sh > somefile 2>&1 &

This will redirect both stdout and stderr to the same file. If you want to redirect stdout and stderr to two different files use this:

./a.sh > stdoutfile 2> stderrfile &

You can use /dev/null as one or both of the files if you don't care about the stdout and/or stderr.

See bash manpage for details about redirections.

Use nohup if your background job takes a long time to finish or you just use SecureCRT or something like it login the server.

Redirect the stdout and stderr to /dev/null to ignore the output.

nohup /path/to/your/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &