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Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.

From Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash.
Date 2016-04-17 15:40 +0200
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On 04/17/2016 08:28 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
>> would anyone ever code:
>>   bin/mailwatcher 2>&1 >/dev/null
>> when surely all they need is
>>   bin/mailwatcher >/dev/null
> Interesting question. (Like what is the use case of cat(1) ?)
> Surely this is one of the less useful variations of the rules
> for redirection.
>
>
> Let's assume a subordinate script which expects to get started
> with stdout redirected to some non-vanilla target.
> For some reason it could decide to direct the stderr of one of
> its own sub-subordinate scripts to stdout as prepared by its
> superior script and to direct the sub-subordinate stdout to /dev/null.
>
> Superior:
>
>    subordinate | result_consumer
>
> Subordinate
>
>    ...
>      echo "Note: Switching to diagnostic output mode"
>      subsubordinate 2>&1 >/dev/null
>    ...
>
> Subsubordinate:
>
>    ... some (in this case) invalid output to stdout ...
>    echo "Failed because ..." >&2
>    ...
>
>
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
Wow, that's pretty arcane, but pretty cool as well. While understanding 
how redirection works, I had never considered such a case.  It does 
point out the power of the redirection options available, though.

-- 
Mike

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My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-16 17:30 +0200
  Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d@gmail.com> - 2016-04-16 18:10 +0200
    Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-16 18:50 +0200
      Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d@gmail.com> - 2016-04-16 19:20 +0200
        Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-17 00:50 +0200
        Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 08:30 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if  useing dash. Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2016-04-17 13:00 +0200
            Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 13:50 +0200
              Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if  useing dash. Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2016-04-17 15:10 +0200
                Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 15:30 +0200
                Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 15:40 +0200
                Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if  useing dash. Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.dbn.25@letterboxes.org> - 2016-04-17 16:40 +0200
            Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-17 15:30 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-17 13:50 +0200
        Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2016-04-22 06:30 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Michael Milliman <michael.e.milliman@gmail.com> - 2016-04-22 07:00 +0200
            Re: Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched  from if useing dash. Clive Standbridge <list-user@tgstandbridges.plus.com> - 2016-04-22 11:40 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-22 10:30 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-22 13:10 +0200
  Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-04-16 18:50 +0200
    Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-16 19:10 +0200
      Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2016-04-16 19:30 +0200
      Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-16 20:10 +0200
        Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-17 01:10 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-17 04:30 +0200
            Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-17 06:50 +0200
              Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from  if useing dash. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-04-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-18 20:50 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 14:10 +0200
          Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 14:10 +0200
            Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-04-17 15:20 +0200
              Re: My script almost works but spams the terminal its launched from if useing dash. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2016-04-17 16:40 +0200

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