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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/30542: [PATCH] add -q option to shut up killall 
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<<On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:20:02 -0700 (PDT), Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> said:

>  Why?  That's what redirects are for.

Redirects are not content-sensitive.  In the case of `killall', it is
entirely legitimate to want to suppress the ``no matching processes
found'' while still displaying any other error messages which might be
generated.

-GAWollman


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