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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting noob question about redirecting stderr Post 302286229 by trey85stang on Tuesday 10th of February 2009 02:10:17 PM
Old 02-10-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
The problem is, 'time' is not an external command, it is a builtin, and one that doesn't seem to obey normal redirection either! I had to wrap it in brackets to get the shell to catch it.
Code:
( time wget -q sitename -O /dev/null ) 2> wlog

wget's built-in -q is easier than > /dev/null 2> /dev/null, and -O /dev/null stops it from cluttering your current directory with downloaded files.

thank you!, I may have head of hair left after I finish this script after all Smilie

This was driving me nuts! and the -O option is nice.. I was palnning on rm'ing the downloaded file afterwards... now I dont have to.
 

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null(n) 																   null(n)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME
null - Create and manipulate null channels SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl package require memchan null _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The command described here is only available in a not-yet released version of the package. Use the CVS to get the sources. null creates a null channel which absorbs everything written into it. Reading from it is not possible, or rather will always return zero bytes. These channels are essentially Tcl-specific variants of the null device for unixoid operating systems (/dev/null). Transfer- ing the generated channel between interpreters is possible but does not make much sense. OPTIONS
Memory channels created by null provide one additional option to set or query. -delay ?milliseconds? A null channel is always writable and readable. This means that all fileevent-handlers will fire continuously. To avoid starvation of other event sources the events raised by this channel type have a configurable delay. This option is set in milliseconds and defaults to 5. A null channel is always writable and never readable. This means that a writable fileevent-handler will fire continuously and a readable fileevent-handler never at all. The exception to the latter is only the destruction of the channel which will cause the delivery of an eof event to a readable handler. SEE ALSO
fifo, fifo2, memchan, random, zero KEYWORDS
channel, i/o, in-memory channel, null COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1996-2003 Andreas Kupries <andreas_kupries@users.sourceforge.net> Memory channels 2.2 null(n)
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