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With any Unix application or command, you can suppress all output with

cmd >/dev/null 2>&1

The first bit redirects the standard output (unit number 1) to /dev/null. But you need the second part to ALSO redirect the error output (unit number 2) to the same place as number 1.

In UNIX, STDIN=0, STDOUT=1 and STDERR=3STDERR=2

With any Unix application or command, you can suppress all output with

cmd >/dev/null 2>&1

The first bit redirects the standard output (unit number 1) to /dev/null. But you need the second part to ALSO redirect the error output (unit number 2) to the same place as number 1.

In UNIX, STDIN=0, STDOUT=1 and STDERR=3

With any Unix application or command, you can suppress all output with

cmd >/dev/null 2>&1

The first bit redirects the standard output (unit number 1) to /dev/null. But you need the second part to ALSO redirect the error output (unit number 2) to the same place as number 1.

In UNIX, STDIN=0, STDOUT=1 and STDERR=2

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answered Feb 4, 2011 at 3:07

Michael Dillon

With any Unix application or command, you can suppress all output with

cmd >/dev/null 2>&1

The first bit redirects the standard output (unit number 1) to /dev/null. But you need the second part to ALSO redirect the error output (unit number 2) to the same place as number 1.

In UNIX, STDIN=0, STDOUT=1 and STDERR=3