Yet Another Blog

As you already know, this summer I’ve been in Brussels (yeah, I know I’ve a lot to blog …). Modern Art from this city is well-know worldwide, so I had a great oportunity to give Soraya a different present for her birthday. A walk through the city with the very very useful use-it map (thanks [...]

$ ls file-that-does-not-exist 2>&1 >/dev/null
ls: file-that-does-not-exist: No such file or directory
$ ls file-that-does-not-exist >/dev/null 2>&1
$

If you want both stderr and stdout to go to /dev/null then “>/dev/null 2>&1″, but if you want stdout to go to /dev/null and stderr to go to whereever stdout used to go to, then “2>&1 >/dev/null”.

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