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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Closing only stderr in a sh(1) command.
Message-ID: <3300@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 4 May 90 19:28:18 GMT
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>The following should do what you want:
>
>   ls *.o 2>/dev/null | some-util

And may also do a bunch of stuff that he *doesn't* want, namely throwing
out any *other* error messages that might occur (like "I/O error" - yes,
I *have* had that happen, with a disk that occasionally went
offline; the appearance of "I/O error" was a signal that it was time to
run off and reset the disk - or "Connection timed out").