A unix shortcut for running a GUI program in the background from the command line. Runs process in the background and redirects output.

easybg

#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ]; then           # check if we have any arguments
    echo usage: $0 command     # if not, print a message and quit
    exit
fi
nohup "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 &    # "$@" expands all the given arguments