Re: Shush!

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Damian Harty wrote:

> I'm using octave as part of a larger process, calling it from the 
> command line with the -q argument to keep it quiet.
>
> Except that it isn't. It publishes some warnings to standard error and 
> I'd rather it didn't. Is there a "no really, be quiet" mode?
>
> At the moment I'm using it in a unix-style shell in Cygwin and so I 
> redirect "standard error" to /dev/null, like the good old days. This 
> does exactly what I want but I was curious if there is a "no stderr 
> output" option; I can't see it here: 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Command-Line-Options.html


It has been a couple of months, but I just saw this.  In case it helps 
anyone, with bash I just do this when I want to run something in the 
background with no stdout or stderr:

process &>/dev/null &

The "&>" catches both.

Mike