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someprog > /dev/null 2>&1

Posted on 9. February 200714. November 2007 by Hans-Henry Jakobsen

The first part, “> /dev/null” means send standard output to the ‘bit bucket” or in other words, throw it away.

The second part, “2>&1” means “redirect standard error (2) to the same place as standard outout (1.)

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Posted in: Linux, ScriptingTagged: redirect, stderr, stdout

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