ahhhh.. *grin* thanks. I had tried to do it that way and typed it incorrectly. :)) couldn't quite understand how it was still writing back to my screen. -jonny On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Guy Harris wrote: > > In some instances i find it to be extremely useful to see the packet count > > on my pty, but in others i would like to be able to suppress that > > altogether. > > > > Is there a cmd line option to switch it off? > > Yes. The switch has the syntax > > >/dev/null 2>&1 > > in the Bourne shell and Bourne-compatible shells and > > >&/dev/null > > in the C shell and C-shell-compatible shells. Add those strings before > the "&" at the end of your command line. :-) > > (I.e., if you want to suppress output from a backgrounded program, send > the output to "/dev/null".) >
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