[Xastir] std err

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, vic wrote:

> How can I stop the error messages xastir spits out when started
> from xterm and put into the background like this; vic at falcon >
> xastir &
>
> That returns the xterminal for my use, but is annoying to get my
> work blown off the screen by messages from xastir while it's
> running.  I know somebody here knows how to take care of this.

    (xastir 2>&1) >/dev/null
or
    (xastir 2>&1) > filename.txt

Those are BASH or BOURNE redirects for STDERR to STDOUT, then of
course piping STDOUT to a file or to NULL.  Run the first in a
subshell () and you should get everything redirected to STDOUT.

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