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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ping: redirect output and error Post 68004 by muthukumar on Wednesday 30th of March 2005 06:43:29 AM
Old 03-30-2005
You can redirect output and error mode data into /dev/null as,

ping <IP> 1>/dev/null 2>&1
ping <IP> 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

ping <ip> 1>/tmp/logfile 2>&1
it will redirect into /tmp/logfile

ping <ip> 1>/tmp/logfile 2>errorfile
output to logfile and error to errorfile.

HTH.
 

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