Is there a way to prevent output from backgrounded tasks from covering the command line in a shell?
- by Chris Pick
I would like to be able to run task(s) in the background of a shell and not have their output to stdout or stderr cover the command line at the bottom. Frequently I need to run other commands to interact with the background processes and would like to do so from the same shell without having to open up another terminal or using multiplexer to split the terminal like screen.
Ideally there would be some setting that I just don't know about (I commonly use bash or ksh), but a new or different shell or a script would be fine by me.
I'm open to any suggestions and appreciate any help, thanks.