Subject: Re: Simple Scripting ? (Is directory empty?)
From: Tom Pollard (pollard@schrodinger.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 09:33:11 MST
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Adam Price wrote:
> So ..... how do I suppress the status messages that maildirserial
> gives. I now have it sending in the background while I run pine, but
> when I quit pine, I get long success reports from maildirserial. The
> obvious way to suppress would be a flag in the call, but there is no such
> flag mentioned in the maildirserial man pages. There must be a way to
> send all output of the script to /dev/null or something?
I don't have your original post anymore, so I don't know what
maildirserial is. But, if you want to direct all output from a command to
/dev/null, use
command > /dev/null 2>&1
In a script, it's more common to want to send just the error output from
a command to /dev/null (and use '$?' to detect command failure). To send
just the error output to /dev/null, you say
command 2> /dev/null
If the command has ordinary output that you're capturing to a file, but
you want to discard the error output, I think you have to use
(command > outputfile) 2> /dev/null
Hope one of those is what you were looking for.
Cheers,
Tom
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