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Old 02-07-2012
How to suppress the error while copying the file
HI ,

I am tryin to copying multiple files from some dir. If the files are not present. It should not throw error in the screen. HOw to do that . Please help
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Old 02-07-2012
Code:
cp src_file dest_file 2>/dev/null

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Old 02-07-2012
redirect stderr ..

Code:
cp filea fileb 2>/dev/null

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Old 02-07-2012
Thnx ahamed101 & thegeek
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Old 02-07-2012
And much better will be:

Code:
 
[[ -f src_file ]] && cp src_file dest_file 2>/dev/null

So with above code, even if you don't have the source file, the script won't call cp command unnecessary. Also, it gives you flexibility to trap the information about missing file as well if you call in nested if - else statement Smilie
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