Run "nohup $COMMAND > /dev/null &" with "back $command"

Question

I'm trying to setup a script in my .bashrc which would create an alias that makes it possible to run a command in the background and ignores output. It should be possible for this command to have multiple arguments, for example "java -jar MyJar.jar". So far I have tried: alias back='nohup "$1" > /dev/null &' But when I test it using for example back sh path/to/intellij/bin/idea.sh my console output is like this: nohup: failed to run command ‘’: No such file or directory And whenever an error happens, it's also logged, which is what I wanted to avoid. Am I taking the wrong approach here or what is going on?

Answer 1

You will need to use a function instead of an alias like:

function back() {
    nohup "$@" &> /dev/null &
}