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# 1  
Old 05-07-2007
Bug stop TAR from desplaying anything on the screen

I am writing a shell script and want the tar command not to display anything on the screen

currently I am using

tar -cvf abc.tar *

Any suggestions?

RG Smilie
# 2  
Old 05-07-2007
Code:
tar -cf abc.tar * >/dev/null 2>&1


Jean-Pierre.
# 3  
Old 05-07-2007
Bug

will you please explain what you did..

i didnt understand the use of /dev/null
# 4  
Old 05-07-2007
>/dev/null
Redirect stdout to the null device
2>&1
Redirect stderr to the same file than stdout


Jean-Pierre.
# 5  
Old 05-07-2007
Bug

But it is still displaying file names on the stdout

-RG
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