How to run a command in the background and get no output?

Question

I wrote two shell scripts a.sh and b.sh. In a.sh and b.sh I have a infinite for loop and they print some output to the te

Answer 1

Sorry this is a bit late but found the ideal solution for somple commands where you don't want any standard or error output (credit where it's due: http://felixmilea.com/2014/12/running-bash-commands-background-properly/)

This redirects output to null and keeps screen clear:

command &>/dev/null &