Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:26:16 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Max Clark'" <maxc-freebsd-questions@beast.clarksys.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Redirect to /dev/null Message-ID: <000101c38f75$24190170$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <002701c38f70$383173e0$04fea8c0@moe>
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> > 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. > > > > ... 2>&1 > /dev/null > > The ampersand preceeds the greater-than symbol, and you > redirect STDOUT > to /dev/null, and then redirect STDERR to STDOUT. > > ... > /dev/null 2&>1 Whooops! Sorry... It should be: ... > /dev/null 2>&1 The the greater-than symbol preceeds the ampersand . I was too quick on the trigger!
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