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Old 04-09-2003
Supress screen output...

I need to suppress the output to the screen. I am appending to a file so do not need the output on the screen in the CLI environment.
eg.
cat $HOME/somefile >> $HOME/anotherfile

I am doing this a number of times with SQL output files so I can look at the finished file not on the screen in the CLI environment.

Smilie
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Old 04-09-2003
Try : cat $HOME/somefile >> $HOME/anotherfile 1>/dev/null

Can't try it myself at the moment, but may work.

Later ...

Actually, what you had initially was ok ( cat $HOME/somefile >> $HOME/anotherfile ) - just tested it then.
When you use the `>>` you are directing STDOUT to the second file so the first file won't scroll bye.

Last edited by Cameron; 04-10-2003 at 12:24 AM..
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Old 04-24-2003
Just a question here what is CLI ?
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Old 04-24-2003
CLI = command line interpreter
 
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