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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 2003 15:51:03 -0500
From:      "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
To:        "'Max Clark'" <maxc-freebsd-questions@beast.clarksys.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Redirect to /dev/null
Message-ID:  <002701c38f70$383173e0$04fea8c0@moe>
In-Reply-To: <20031010202755.GA74202@beast.clarksys.com>

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> What is the proper way to redirect output to /dev/null? I've=20
> been using the following in my crontab but output is still=20
> ending up in my mailbox.
>=20
> ... 2>&1 > /dev/null

The ampersand preceeds the greater-than symbol, and you redirect STDOUT
to /dev/null, and then redirect STDERR to STDOUT.

 ... > /dev/null 2&>1

=20




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