Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.
Hi,
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> Why is the "2>&1" part needed? Wouldn't stderr go to the terminal by
> default.
Goal is to redirect both to /dev/null.
So these would do:
bin/mailwatcher 2>/dev/null >/dev/null &
bin/mailwatcher >/dev/null 2>&1 &
But as Michael Milliman pointed out,
bin/mailwatcher 2>&1 >/dev/null &
redirects only stdout to /dev/null and leaves stderr directed to where
stdout was pointing before.
Have a nice day :)
Thomas
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