Re: [ILUG] BaSh or perl scripting q

From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 - 23:21:47 IST

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:29:24PM +0100, Waider wrote:
> You might also want to add -q to stop grep spewing out whatever it
> finds.

actually grep is a pain. -q doesn't always make it completely quiet
(directories, missing files, etc. on some systems is does, but not all.
the portable way to shut it up is to do > /dev/null 2>&1

such a simple thing, but it drives me nuts sometimes.

kevin

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