Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 02:56:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Matthew Blacklow <matthew.blacklow@ticca.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C clue on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011022025459.X11121-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <NFBBICMIIEMNIMGOBPCMOEFJCEAA.matthew.blacklow@ticca.com>
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On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Matthew Blacklow wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am running FreeBSD and am trying to learn C. I have a program at the
> moment which using C's "system" function launches a FreeBSD application. The
> problem is that it outputs to the screen all the output of the spawned
> process. I need to know how to supress the output of this process. I have
> looked through many C programming books and on the web and cant seem to find
> what i am looking for.
Try:
system("/my/app 2>&1 >/dev/null");
That will redirect all stdout and stderr to /dev/null, thus making your
program silent.
Joe
>
> All help appreciated
>
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
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