[SLUG] Bash Help

[Paul Teasdale]

On Monday 06 Sep 2004 21:55, Gavin Baker wrote:
>
> Or equivalently
>
> ps -A | grep "$PPID.*aterm$" &> /dev/null
>
> &> redirects both stdout and stderr, so it's just shorthand for Pauls
> suggestion.

Thanks for that one Gavin. I've often wondered if there was a catch all 
but never bothered to find out. You have just confirmed that there is 
indeed a way of capturing both stdout and stderr. Nice :)

Kind regards,

Paul.

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