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Re: redirection to /dev/null
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: redirection to /dev/null |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:04:18 -0400 |
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On 9/9/20 8:16 PM, Koichi Murase wrote:
>> I've also read that '&> /dev/null' is outdated and should be replaced
>> with '>/dev/null 2>&1'
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>> True? And exactly why?
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> I'm also interested in whether it is really outdated and should not be
> used.
It's not outdated.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/