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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 14:46:04 -0600
From: Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com>
To: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
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I think that

find / -name foo 2>&-

should do the trick (under ksh, anyway, and
probably zsh or bash as well). Csh variants
IIRC don't have the concept of closing a
file descriptor...

		tw

>>=09
>>	The initial question was how to do
>>=09
>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null=20
>>=09
>>	or similar if /dev/null is not present. (Eat is a place holder for a
>>	imaginary progrom acting as /dev/null replacement).
>>=09
>>	I guess=20
>>=09
>>	find / -name foo 2>/dev/stdout 1>/dev/stderr | eat
>>=09
>>	would (kinda) work, but it fails if you want to do
>>=09
>>	find / -name foo 2> /dev/null | less
>>=09
>>	Can be done with named pipes, though.
>>=09
>>=09
>>	-- v --
>>=09
>>	v@iki.fi
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