Neil Parker wrote:
Rob Hudson wrote,
How does one disable the output of certain cron jobs? I have some
backup scripts running and other things and don't need to see all of
that stuff in an email. Can I silently discard the output of those
scripts that run?
The incantation I usually use is this:
myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
where "myscript.sh" is the script to be run by the cron job. This goes in
the crontab file, in the "command to be run" field.
The ">/dev/null" discards the standard output, and "2>&1" says to send the
standard error to the same place as the standard output.
That's the one I'm used to seeing. Thanks for the explanation. &1 I
guess can be thought of as a reference to where stdout is going.
Thanks,
Rob
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