1 .TH BLINDTTY 1 2006-11-14
4 blindtty - Run command in a blind terminal
7 .B blindtty CMD [ARGS]...
12 runs a command in a blind terminal. This is very similar to redirecting
13 all its I/O to /dev/null, but the application retains a perception of
14 being ran on a terminal, even though it will not ever receive any input
15 and noone will see its output. This is useful if you want to run an
16 application "detached" now but want to attach it later using
19 You might find it useful to run it as:
21 .B setsid blindtty CMD...
23 In that case it will really detach from your terminal and start a separate
28 Written and maintained by Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> and Jan Sembera
33 retty(1), setsid(8), screen(1)