Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Emmanuel Gravel <e_gravel@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] shell scripting, testing for files Message-ID: <20000810210901.26901.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com>
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Of course :) Thanks! That's all I really needed ;) --- Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:12:04PM -0700, Emmanuel > Gravel wrote: [...] > > if there are now files which follow the pattern, I > > get an unwanted error message from ls (that I > > would want to suppress, but haven't found any > > option to do so). > > To suppress the error from ls(1) try `ls <pattern> > 2>/dev/null`: > > $ ls fdjk > ls: fdjk: No such file or directory > $ ls fdjk 2>/dev/null > $ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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