On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:09:05PM -0500, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 09:09:21PM +0200, Sven Burgener wrote:
> > Not to be mean or anything, but FYI fetchmail can be made
> > silent with "-s":
> > -s, --silent work silently
> >
> > But then again, you probably already knew that. :)
> you're half right. i suspected, but hadn't explored the
> docs to find out. is there a performance penalty comparing
> these two
> some_verbose_command > /dev/null
> versus
> some_verbose_command --silent_running
I *guess* --silent-running would be better in that respect as it doesn't
print anything that needs to be redirected anywhere -> less "traffic".
But hey, correct me if I'm wrong, anyone.
> good eye. i thought about that one just after i hit the
> SEND button. (i guess i need a shorter send button.)
:)
Sven
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