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Old 10-06-2005
Turn off Screen Output
Is there a way to turn off standard output while processing is going on? I have tried redirecting to /dev/null but that is not working because some of the commands invoke a profile. I would like to temporarily turn off the screen output until the processing is complete. Sort of like a splash screen while everything is being intialized.

Thanks.
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Old 10-06-2005
Why would a profile create screen output if you are cacthing both stderr and stdout?
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Old 10-06-2005
I'm really not sure whey the output is generated. I am calling a global environment function that generates the output. It may not be from the profile but it looks like what happens when I login to the box.
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Old 10-06-2005
I mean - are you trapping 1 and 2 like this?
Code:
myscript > /dev/null 2>&1

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