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John Red
Asked: 2013-05-23 07:51:11 +0800 CST

Redirect stdout and stderr so that it is displayed or stored nowhere

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I want a process to just NOT print its stdout or stderr output.
I know that I can do something like
program >output.txt 2>errors.txt and then rm output.txt errors.txt but its not elegant.
I want that they should not at all be stored anywhere in the first place.
Any idea how to do so?

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2 Answers

  1. Just run it as program >/dev/null 2>&1

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  2. If you never want it to output stdout or stderr (much like how I have it set up for my Kate text editor) you can add the following line to your ~/.bashrc:

    alias kate='kate 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null'

    Just replace kate with the needed program, and you should be good to go.

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