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How to stop errors showing in output – Terminal – Command line

21st December 2014

Raspberry-Pi

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By adding 2>/dev/null

If you don’t specify a number then the standard output stream is assumed but you can also redirect errors

> file redirects stdout to file
1> file redirects stdout to file
2> file redirects stderr to file
&> file redirects stdout and stderr to file

We used 2>/dev/null, so it gets error output and redirects the stderr to file, in this case a null file!

/dev/null is the null device it takes any input you want and throws it away. It can be used to suppress any output.