Hi,
I saw this thread and wish to now what /21 /does and maybe you know a
place where I can find out more about this?
Best regards - Jon
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I saw this thread and wish to now what /21 /does and maybe you know a
place where I can find out more about this?
Best regards - Jon
21 means redirect STDERR (2) to STDOUT (1)
a good starting point for further research would be man bash
Hi all,
What is the proper way to redirect output to /dev/null? I've been using the following
in my crontab but output is still ending up in my mailbox.
... 21 /dev/null
Thanks,
Max
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In the last episode (Oct 10), Max Clark said:
What is the proper way to redirect output to /dev/null? I've been
using the following in my crontab but output is still ending up in my
mailbox.
... 21 /dev/null
I'm sure this is in a sh FAQ someplace:
What you did was dup fd1 onto fd2
What is the proper way to redirect output to /dev/null? I've
been using the following in my crontab but output is still
ending up in my mailbox.
... 21 /dev/null
The ampersand preceeds the greater-than symbol, and you redirect STDOUT
to /dev/null, and then redirect STDERR to STDOUT
What is the proper way to redirect output to /dev/null? I've
been using the following in my crontab but output is still
ending up in my mailbox.
... 21 /dev/null
The ampersand preceeds the greater-than symbol, and you
redirect STDOUT
to /dev/null, and then redirect STDERR
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:26:16PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote:
It should be:
... /dev/null 21
The the greater-than symbol preceeds the ampersand .
Thank you, that makes much more sense now.
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