Run a command silently

[verhulstm]

No description provided.

[nixjdm]

What are you envisioning here? "in realtime" means during an execution, while the streams are in-use, so I'm not sure how you would tell it to stop. The only way I can think of to do that is via stdin, so it would have to be a specially looked-for and captured stdin. Is that what you mean? That may interfere with normal expectation on stdin. It could be done, but maybe not cleanly. I'm not sure.

[verhulstm]

calling a shell cmd via passthrough aways seems to print output to the terminal. I want to be able to turn this off and not see any output in the terminal.

[nixjdm]

So just silently running a command?

[verhulstm]

yes, plus logging the results to a file.