I see...
Thanks for the info on the > /dev/null & part. That will be useful... how is that related to the | (pipe), which allows the piping of output as in tar -tf linux-2.4.18.tar.gz|egrep kde?
I see your point about the tips, acid_kewpie. This is a general problem I have with putting too much effort into forum posts. :p |
> and |
> is used to redirect the SDTOUT of a process into a file (the work of writing to the file is being done by the shell)
| is used to redirect SDTOUT into SDTIN of another program. Also useful is the < , which is used to read a file as STDIN for a process... This often gets neglected in favor of cat however. Almost everywhere you see: cat filename | someprogram Can be re-written as: someprogram < filename |
Re: > /dev/null
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