[NTLUG:Discuss] How to get mv to not report when there are no files?

[Fred James]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:

>Hello:
>
>I have a cron job with this command:
>mv /home/johnc/* /var/www/html/incoming
>
>If there is a file in the /home/johnc directory, I get
>no output, but when the directory is empty, I get this
>notification to the root email account:
>
>mv: cannot stat `/home/johnc/*': No such file or directory
>
>This job runs every 5 minutes so this is annoying.
>
>Is there a way to supress that output?
>
>Thanks,
>	Neil
>  
>
Neil Aggarwal

mv /home/johnc/* /var/www/html/incoming 2> /dev/null
... redirects the stderr to /dev/null (the special file that never contains anything no matter how much you put into it).

On my system that would man null, for more information
Regards
Fred James