On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:01:15PM -0400, Richard Edward Horner wrote: > Ahh! Mike, you're right! Problem solved! Thank you! But I think you meant: > > ( sleep 6 ; ) </dev/null &>/dev/null & Which is exactly what I suggested. Ok, I didn't use the &> shortcut, but... Anyway, problem solved you said, so all is well. -- Babar.