Hi Michael --- "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:03:38PM -0700, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > Thanks a lot for your help. > > > Two constructs: > > " > /dev/null 2>&1" > > "2>&1 > /dev/null" > > > [ ... ]
> > I understand now: the result of both constructs is the *same*, but > > you seem to be disagreeing: "That ["2>&1 > /dev/null"] probably ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ... just you to make it clear: I *thought* you'd probably be disagreeing (tho' I actually didn't know ...) > > won't do what you want and certainly does NOT do what's above > > [i.e." > /dev/null 2>&1", and I didn't understand the rest of your > > sentence - important? - :] (unless stdout was aleady directed > > to /dev/null)." > > Ok... Let me do this through example... > > Script one calls script two as follows... > > Script 1: > > [ ... ] I'll let you know as soon as I understood what you were explaining (it will take me some time ... :) ... ) Again: thanks a lot. :) Wolfgang __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list