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

Rick Renshaw bofh69 at yahoo.com
Sun Nov 11 11:56:10 CST 2007


--- Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:

> 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.

I realized that after I typed that in.

And if you don't want ANY output from a script (on either stdout or stderr), use:
mv /home/johnc/* /var/www/html/incoming > /dev/null 2>&1

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