Very simple help stopping bash terminal output please

[Ojustaboo]

My very simple bash for starting Lord of the rings online contains just the following 3 lines.

killall pulseaudio
export WINEPREFIX=/home/dad/.wine-lotro/
pylotro


This works fine, but how do I stop terminal windows opening
(eg saying: pulseaudio: no process killed) or failing that, how do I make them close straight away please?

thanks

[Can+~]

How are you starting the script?

[aesis05401]

Sounds like you are just wanting to 'background' the script.

You can leave your original script in tact. Create a custom launcher set to be a terminal application, and for your command simply enter the name of the lotr script with ' &' appended. When you click this launcher a CLI will appear, your commands will run, and then the window will exit automatically.

Does this help?

[soltanis]

If you actually want to kill pulseaudio (if it's running and killall is failing) you should also try using pkill instead of killall.

Using the & will background the process but not suppress output. To do both, you would have to redirect the output data. So in the launcher command line you'd type

script.sh &> /dev/null &

Which redirects both standard output and error to the null device (discards all output).

[Ojustaboo]

Many thanks all, I am being stupid (for a change)

If I start the script from `create launcher` the problems non existent

soltanis's solution works if I start it from a terminal

thanks again

boo