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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Closing only stderr in a sh(1) command.
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Date: 2 May 90 04:22:44 GMT
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In article <1605@dinl.mmc.UUCP>, noren@dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes:
|> What I want to do is:
|> 
|>    ls *.o | some-util
|> 
|> so that if there is no *.o files, it will not be reported.
|> In other words, can I close only stderr (or redirect it to
|> /dev/null) while keeping stdin and stdout unaffected?

  May I humbly suggest that you RTFM before posting a question like this
to the net?  I'm fairly certain that the man page sh(1) talks about
using the num>file syntax to redirect a specific file descriptor
somewhere.  In this particular case, you might try:

    ls *.o 2>/dev/null | some-util

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