[K12OSN] some scripting help

Ray Garza rgarza28 at gmail.com
Sat May 12 15:14:22 UTC 2007


On Saturday 12 May 2007 09:50:49 Nils Breunese wrote:
> Ray Garza wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 May 2007 08:50:33 Nils Breunese wrote:
> >>     ls /home/$account/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/cache 2>/dev/null
> >
> > I just saw this on a link that I've been reading up on at
> > http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/zeros.html
> >
> >>> I plan to run it as a cron job
> >>> but I don't want the error messages popping up on the screen. Is there
> >>> a way to suppress the error message? Will putting it in a cron job log
> >>> the error but not display it?
> >>
> >> I believe by default any output generated by cron jobs is mailed to the
> >> user the script runs as. You can override the address by setting MAILTO=
> >> in the crontab. You can also redirect all output of the cron job to
> >> /dev/null:
> >>
> >>     /path/to/script >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> > Ok, it's a little different here
>
> What do you mean exactly?
>
in the script it 
2>/dev/null

and redirect output of the scron job it's
2>&1

That's what I meant that it's a little different


> Nils Breunese.





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