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Start graphical applications from the terminal without output and without blocking the terminal? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 months ago by PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklinux@lemmy.world
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when I want to run a file manager or firefox from terminal, how can I surpress output and run it in the background as quickly as possible?

My current approach (an example starting thunar file manager in background):

thunar ./hello.txt&

but sometimes messages still pop up in the terminal then ...

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[โ€“] trigg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

thunar ./hello.txt >/dev/null 2>&1 &

The >/dev/null sends stdout to nowhere while the 2>&1 send stderr to stdout

[โ€“] PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Is this the fastest way? typing this out with every call is tideous. can one add an alias for this?