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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Controlling stdin and stdouts of other executables
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Date: 2 May 90 06:37:30 GMT
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>)...
>)If all you want to do is IGNORE the error and standard output from your
>)command, then the following should work:
>
>You don't want to close the standard streams, you want to connect them
>to /dev/null, quite a difference!
>

and this is most easily done using the shell's usual redirection operators:

system ("command > /dev/null 2>&1");



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