[Xastir] standard err

[Jason Winningham]

On Aug 20, 2007, at 4:18 PM, vic wrote:

> Can the output from xastir to the terminal be stopped somehow with  
> a command or command string when xastir is started with the &  
> option to put it into the background??

xastir 2>/dev/null &

which means "redirect file descriptor 2 aka stderr to the file  
specified".

to redirect output and stderr,

xastir >/dev/null 2>&1 &

which means "redirect file descriptor 1 to the file specified, then  
redirect file descriptor 2 to the same place".

-Jason
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