How do I keep background jobs from telling me they're done

Question

In RVM (Ruby Version Manager) you can create .rvmrc files for a per-project basis. This handles basic ruby version and library (gem) management. This script is automatically executed when you cd into an directory. However, it is nothing more than a Bash script. There is one particular part in the script that is as follows:

(
  if ! command -v bundle ; then
    gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri
  fi

  bundle | grep -v 'Using' | grep -v 'complete' | sed '/^$/d'

) &

Since this is executed ever time you cd into a directory, it would be nice if I didn't get the following every time:

[1]+  Done                    ( if ! command -v bundle; then
    gem install bundler --no-rdoc --no-ri;
fi; bundle | grep --color=auto -v 'Using' | grep --color=auto -v 'complete' | sed '/^$/d' )

Is there any way that I can run these set of commands in the background and not be notified when it is completed. Or at least notified in a less obnoxious way such that the message might be like:

[1]+ Bundler is done! :-)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Try using disown, for example:

sleep 1 & disown

From man bash:

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]

Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs. If jobspec is not present, and neither -a nor -r is supplied, the shell's notion of the current job is used. If the -h option is given, each jobspec is not removed from the table, but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives a SIGHUP. If no jobspec is present, and neither the -a nor the -r option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is supplied, the -a option means to remove or mark all jobs; the -r option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs. The return value is 0 unless a jobspec does not specify a valid job.

Answer 2

You can redirect all output to either a logfile or to /dev/null too. Simply change the last line from

) &

to

) 2>&1 >>/var/log/rvm-log &