How do you remove the Automator gear icon in the menu bar? I have Automator workflow applications that I run from keyboard shortcuts. It is great, however, a small gear icon always appears.

I would like to remove it. 


How do you do this?
I usually remove all the pixels from the image of menu bar icons of applications, so they are invisible in the menu bar. I could easily do this with Automator (or the Automator application launcher), but can't find where the menu bar icons are stored. Where would they be stored?
If you are starting a long-running process with "Run Shell Script", redirecting its output should be enough. For example:

long-running-process &amp;&gt;/dev/null &amp;


The gear icon appears then goes away shortly after, I think it is better than nothing...