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From: Emmanuel Gravel <e_gravel@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [OT] shell scripting, testing for files
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Of course :)

Thanks! That's all I really needed ;)

--- Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:12:04PM -0700, Emmanuel
> Gravel wrote:
[...]
> > if there are now files which follow the pattern, I
> > get an unwanted error message from ls (that I
> > would want to suppress, but haven't found any
> > option to do so). 
> 
> To suppress the error from ls(1) try `ls <pattern>
> 2>/dev/null`:
> 
>    $ ls fdjk
>    ls: fdjk: No such file or directory
>    $ ls fdjk 2>/dev/null
>    $ 


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