Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:52:46 +0100 | From | Abramo Bagnara <> | Subject | Re: Need blocking /dev/null |
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Doug McNaught wrote: > > Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.cx> writes: > > > Are you sure? > > > > > find / -name "wanted-but-lost-download" | eat > > > > Doesn't work - you're piping the stdin there, not stderr as per my > > example above. AFAIK, there's no way to pipe stderr without also piping > > stdout, hence this sort of solution just doesn't work. > > The Bourne shell is more perverse than you realize: > > $ exec 3>&1; find / -name "wanted-but-lost-download" 2>&1 1>&3 3>&- | eat > > [stolen from "Csh Programming Considered Harmful" by Tom Christiansen] > > Horrible, but does work. ;)
$ find / -name "wanted-but-lost-download" 2>&1 1>&0 | eat
is simpler although dependent on stdin being a tty
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