Re: [Help-bash] trouble using &

[Pierre Gaston]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:52 PM, frank ernest <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I was trying to play a wav file using play and I can't seem to get it
> to fork into the background while still playing. I've tried using coproc,
> and & but nothing seems to work (ctrl-Z would stop the process,) here is a
> real code snippet:
>
> play "All night long.wav" &> /dev/null &
> ps
> PID   TTY   TIME    CMD
> 3440 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
> 3491 pts/0 00:00:00 play
> 3492 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
>
> The file plays fine if I remove the last & .
> echo hello
> Works fine, so, what do I do? I know that changing ttys IE ctrl-alt-F*
> makes the audio stop (which makes sense because that if I'm playing a cool
> tune and you don't want to hear it you don't since your logged in on a
> different tty,) but I don't think & does that to the process.
> Thanks
>
> it tries to read from the terminal and thus stops when in the background,
also redirect stdin:
play "All night long.wav" &> /dev/null </dev/null &