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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:50:07 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru>
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Subject: Re: How to do ping really quiet?
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 18:22:34 +0200, KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hello, Questions.
> 
> When I use
> ping -q ya.ru
> I get
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> 
> How to make ping really quiet?

It depends on your shell. For default scripting shell (Bourne Shell)
you can

	ping -q ya.ru > /dev/null 2>&1

which "suppresses" standard output and error messages.

Within the standard dialog shell (C Shell), I think &> has the same
purpose (refer to "man csh" to be sure).



-- 
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
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