Re: Need blocking /dev/null

[Tim Walberg]

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I think that

find / -name foo 2>&-

should do the trick (under ksh, anyway, and
probably zsh or bash as well). Csh variants
IIRC don't have the concept of closing a
file descriptor...

		tw

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>>	The initial question was how to do
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>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null=20
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>>	or similar if /dev/null is not present. (Eat is a place holder for a
>>	imaginary progrom acting as /dev/null replacement).
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>>	I guess=20
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>>	find / -name foo 2>/dev/stdout 1>/dev/stderr | eat
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>>	would (kinda) work, but it fails if you want to do
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>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null | less
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>>	Can be done with named pipes, though.
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