How to run a command in the background and get no output?

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Use nohup if your background job takes a long time to finish or you just use SecureCRT or something like it login the server.

Redirect the stdout and stderr to /dev/null to ignore the output.

nohup /path/to/your/script.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &

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