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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: yet more FreeBSD-1.1-BETA install bugs
Date: 29 Mar 1994 17:45:34 +0200
Organization: TU Darmstadt, ITI
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Message-ID: <deeken.764955732@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <Cn7vwo.2z0@cosy.sbg.ac.at> <JKH.94Mar25151624@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> <2n71jn$6c3@Germany.EU.net> <JKH.94Mar29161752@sentnl.ilo.dec.com>
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jkh@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) writes:
>In article <2n71jn$6c3@Germany.EU.net> bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
> There is a bug in the FreeBSD-1.1-BETA install script with respect to the
> bad144 stuff.
> It reads something like
> bad144 -s > /dev/null 2>&1 | BLAH
> but should IMHO read
> (bad144 -s > /dev/null) 2>&1 | BLAH
>Hmmm. Why?
Because '>/dev/null 2>&1' redirects stdout _and_ stderr to /dev/null,
so 'BLAH' gets no input. Bernards form works, but IMHO '2>&1 >/dev/null'
is more suitable, since you don't get another subprocess.
Hannes
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