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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:14:49 -0500
From:      Edmond Baroud <SoHo@admin.fido.ca>
To:        pura life CR <puralifecr@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stderr redirection
Message-ID:  <20021217201449.GA38112@admin.fido.ca>
In-Reply-To: <F92hUOEO5EivEjeAGVk00004dba@hotmail.com>
References:  <F92hUOEO5EivEjeAGVk00004dba@hotmail.com>

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dude,

in = 0
out = 1
err = 2

and by putting >2 in after your grep foo command your redirecting
your stdout to a file called 2.
to redirect stderr to /dev/null u can do:
%du -a / | grep foo 2>/dev/null

regards,

Ed.

Quoting pura life CR (puralifecr@hotmail.com):
> (1) Hi, I would like to know how can I redirect stdin, stdout and/or stderr 
> from an interactive shell?
> 
> (2) I am confused, it's smthg like %du -a / | grep foo >2 /dev/null ?
> In this case, I am looking for certain files and I dont want to view 
> annonying message such as "permised denied" so the goal is redirect stderr 
> to /dev/null, howto??.
> 
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> 
> 
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