From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chrisw@rice.edu (Christopher Warrington) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:29:29 -0500 Subject: [sup-talk] run-mailcap not working correctly In-Reply-To: <1193783673-sup-4792@south> References: <1192497496-sup-690@silver> <6205b42d0710160119k5291a5e2ta1e89a0040471972@mail.gmail.com> <1193783673-sup-4792@south> Message-ID: <1193790417-sup-3611@chris-tablet> Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Tue Oct 30 17:35:31 -0500 2007: > Excerpts from Pierre Baillet's message of Tue Oct 16 01:19:38 -0700 2007: > > I got the same issue on my debian setup here. Removing the >&... made > > the html attachement work again. > Is this some shell-specific thing? It seems to work on bash. If so, is > there a portable way of discarding stderr? I don't want it cluttering > the screen if the process fails. Yes. In bash &> redirects both stdout and stderr. In sh, you can use this: process > /dev/null 2> /dev/null (From http://tomecat.com/jeffy/tttt/shredir.html) Don't know about csh, ksh, &c. -- Christopher Warrington