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From: bharat@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Bharat Mediratta)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Background Jobs?
Message-ID: <1991May7.162944.3080@cm.cf.ac.uk>
Date: 7 May 91 16:29:44 GMT
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In article <1991May6.213624.7652@sbcs.sunysb.edu> pbanerji@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Pratip K Banerji) writes:
>After a background job is completed, a message is usually displayed
>telling you that its done. For example, if I type in         
>
>          source test &
>
>It gives a "job complete message when it is finished. Is there any
>way to bypass this message?

Try:

	(source test &) >/dev/null

-Bharat
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