Re: simple questions

[csj <csj@mindgate.net>]

On 02 Feb 2002 15:26:08 +0100
Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic@chello.at> wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 14:45, Alexey wrote:
> > 1.   How can I make a program produce no output on the shell screen if
> >      it has no special "quiet behavior" option and >/dev/null doesn't help?
> >      (the messages are not errors- or warnings-like).
> 
> Did you still try 2> /dev/null ? Maybe they aren't errors or warnings
> but still directed to sterr

A bashism! How about this:

(cdrecord > /dev/null) >& /dev/null

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