A new builtin to quietly run a detached process

Traditionally, this is done by redirecting stdout and stderr to /dev/null, to prevent it cluttering up the terminal, backgrounding the process then disowning it. e.g.

# xed launch.sh &> /dev/null &
# disown

Launching a GUI application from the command-line with a file/directory argument is common, so we should make it quick and simple. Possible names for this builtin command:

• run
• start
• launch