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Re: Non blocking "do shell script" ?
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Re: Non blocking "do shell script" ?

  • Subject: Re: Non blocking "do shell script" ?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 06:28:26 -0400
On 9/2/07, Harald Schneider <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a way to start a shell script as a background process ?

FAQ alert! :)

do shell script "command </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 &"

should do the trick.  Replace the second "/dev/null" with the path to
a real file if you want to capture the output.

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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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