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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:53:39 -0600
To: adrian kok <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>, zaa@ulstu.ru
From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org>
Subject: Re: /dev/null 2>&1
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At 01:49 AM 1/15/2002 +0800, adrian kok wrote:
>Hi Zaa
>
>Thank you. But what is the purpose for it on the
>system?

Often when a command ( compile or cron job, for example ) wants to restrict 
certain output.  In such cases the output might: confuse the user, add 
jabber to the console, or generate unwanted email messages.

> >for example, if you type
>
> >find / -name foo > /dev/null 2>&1
>
>is seems that stdin is redirected to nowhere
>(/dev/null)
>and stderr is redirected to stdout e.g to /dev/null
>too

--chris


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