Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 01:43:28 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: simple question Message-ID: <3DC8E440.3060902@owt.com> References: <200211060747.gA67likv053196@labs.unixhideout.com>
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mike wrote: > Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do let me know its finished? thanks guys > tar -xzf ports.tar.gz & Turn off the verbose and & to background it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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