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  • cheers, but the problem with using &>/dev/null & is that nothing gets written to the logfile from script2. I'll have to take a look at the screen and tmux options mentioned. Commented Jan 29, 2016 at 10:06
  • @IGGt ... outputs from script2 will stay the same, only 'detaching command' must be redirected somewhere (to /dev/null , or to some log file). Commented Feb 1, 2016 at 14:54