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Operating Systems Solaris Locating files! Post 302800373 by verdepollo on Monday 29th of April 2013 03:30:56 PM
Old 04-29-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by alexex666
whats does 2>/dev/null do or mean?
It tells the shell to redirect all error messages (if any) into the void (/dev/null).
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