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Created December 31, 2014 00:53
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Backgrounds a command, disowns it, and hides all of its output
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bkr.bash
# Background function to run any given command in the background and
# disown it from the shell, hiding ALL output:
bkr ()
{
(nohup "$@" &>/dev/null &)
}
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