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

[Wayne Walker]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:16:18PM -0800, Rick Renshaw wrote:
> --- Neil Aggarwal <neil at JAMMConsulting.com> wrote:
> Easiest way would be 
> mv /home/johnc/* /var/www/html/incoming > /dev/null

That will still generate output (error messages go to file descriptor 2,
aka stderror)

mv /home/johnc/* /var/www/html/incoming 2> /dev/null

will work, BUT will fail to notify you if something goes wrong.

-- 

Wayne Walker

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