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RaduH 11-26-2007 06:18 PM
Silent tar
 
Hi all,

I am running tar to create a tarball and I am not using the verbose option. However, I still get some output. For example:

tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets

Any way I could get rid of any output completely? I've read tar--help but haven't seen anything useful. I am running this tar command from inside a script and the output is really annoying me.

Thanks!

pwc101 11-26-2007 06:37 PM
Code:
tar cf your_file.tar /first_dir /second_dir &> /dev/null
should take care of it.

For reference, see: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-3.html


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