To start with, I need the xdo<\/em> tool, which can be installed with :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once that is installed, I modified a shell script from https:\/\/github.com\/salman-abedin\/devour\/blob\/master\/<\/a> into a zsh function. I created a function file within my FPATH<\/em> (~\/lib\/zsh\/functions\/devour<\/em>) :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that I have deliberately not redirected stdout<\/em> and stderr<\/em> away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I then added the following to my .zshrc<\/em> :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next step is to create aliases for the commands you might want to run automatically in such a way :-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I am not sure “devour” is the right word to use for this action, but I have yet to think of a better one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been a bit of a rush on Youtube videos describing how to hide the terminal when running certain commands; when using the terminal as a file browser you may want to show a media file. And sometimes when showing that file, you may wish to hide the terminal – particularly on a small […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,209],"tags":[1942,1943,1212],"class_list":["post-5798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux-it","tag-devour","tag-hiding-the-terminal","tag-zsh","category-4-id","category-209-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1f2KI-1vw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5799,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/really.zonky.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}$ sudo apt install xdo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nfunction devour {\n id=$(xdo id)\n xdo hide\n . $@\n xdo show \"$id\"\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nautoload devour<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nalias mpv=\"devour mpv\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/really.zonky.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/damascus-unix-prompt1.png?resize=695%2C463&ssl=1\")
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