Timeline for automatically redirect output to /dev/null
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| Mar 4, 2016 at 17:32 | history | edited | Wildcard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
2>&1 >/dev/null doesn't work as author thinks.
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| Dec 23, 2015 at 15:19 | history | edited | Mathieu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
improved answer
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| Dec 23, 2015 at 13:28 | comment | added | Jeff Schaller♦ |
Note that 2>&1 > /dev/null assigns stderr to stdout, then assigns stdout to /dev/null -- the upshot will be that you'll see stderr messages. If the goal is to 'silence the script', you should rearrange the assignment to: > /dev/null 2>&1
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| Dec 22, 2015 at 21:04 | vote | accept | watchmansky | ||
| Dec 22, 2015 at 20:49 | history | answered | Mathieu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |