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Title: Redirecting to /dev/null is Ugly
Published: 05-31-2007
Many people use 2>/dev/null or 2>/dev/null >&2 when throwing away output from a program. This is ugly. Instead just close the file descriptor: 2>&- or 2>&- >&2.

Redirecting to /dev/null is Ugly

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