topic Re: gzip question in Operating System - HP-UX

gzip question

Hunki — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:55:35 GMT

Problem Decription :
In my script I am using the following command :

gzip /qsm/ear/backup/EAR.ear.*

Let's say if the file does not exist and I get an error output when the script is running : "No such file or directory".

Question : How do I avoid this error output within the script ... redirecting it to /dev/null did not work.

Re: gzip question

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:02:33 GMT

Hi Hunki:

You need to redirect STDERR:

# gzip /qsm/ear/backup/EAR.ear.* 2>/dev/null

Well-bahaved Unix coding puts error and warning output to STDERR (file descriptor-2).

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: gzip question

Hunki — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:28:09 GMT

Thanks JRF!