how to ignore stdin input inside a script

Question

I have a program "myprogram" and it waits for a enter key when run on console. After we press somekey it exits. I want to run this myprogram in background and ignore stdin input. I have a smaple script, sample.sh script ``` ------ ./myprogram & exit 0 ------ ``` but when I run, %sh sample.sh some how myprogram gets some inputs from stdin and exits.. I want to stop it from getting any input from stdin so even after sample.sh exits myprogram continue to run. Please suggest how I can update sample.sh script to achieve this.

Accepted Answer

You can connect the program's standard-input to `/dev/null`:

```
./myprogram < /dev/null &
```

how to ignore stdin input inside a script

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