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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:57:20 +0200
From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] [RFC] pathchk quiet flag
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:57:31PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
> This path adds a -q flag to stop pathchk from outputting error
> messages but still return an error code.

Why do you need this; can't you do something like
  pathconf -- "$pathname" 2>/dev/null

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker