On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 10:23:52AM -0700, gaze...@xmission.com wrote: > 1) In a script, when you kill a process, you get a terminal style message > about the process being killed. See below for further description.
Here's a simpler reproducer (no need for external symlinks or killall): wooledg:~$ cat foo #!/bin/bash sleep 100 & pid=$! kill $pid wait wooledg:~$ ./foo ./foo: line 4: 8615 Terminated sleep 100 And I have to agree, a clean way to turn off job control type messages is something MANY people would love to have. As it is now, the best solution to this problem is actually to switch from bash to a different shell. wooledg:~$ cat foo #!/bin/sh sleep 100 & pid=$! kill $pid wait wooledg:~$ ./foo wooledg:~$ Sad. (That's dash; ksh is also silent.) The only other solution I know is to redirect stderr to /dev/null, but that has repercussions that a serious program cannot live with.
