Shell Programming and Scripting

When I run the following script I get the following error message whcih I would like to suppress when the kill is issued:

./kill.sh: line 13: 31854 Killed nc -l -p 12345

Script:

#!/bin/bash

echo running nc in the background
nc -l -p 12345 &
PID=$!
echo nc pid: $PID

sleep 1

echo about to kill pid: $PID
kill -9 $PID
echo kill rc: $?

exit

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Anyone know how I can suppress that message? Thanks in advance...

Chris

Try:
disown $PID
before the kill.