In some situation, that we need to hide the output information of a application, such goagent or some useful manual scripts.Thus redirect into a blackhole is the best choice you can make.
Here I will introduce the representation of streams in linux bash programming:

  • 0 :STDIN
  • 1 :STDOUT
  • 2 :STDERR

upon which we could use that number to redirect data or information into another stream.
Here is our example:

$CommandThatProduceOutputs 1>/dev/null 2>&1

As we could see that,through >, we could redirect the number represented stream into another place.
If you want to redirect one stream into another stream, using & to represent.



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29 July 2013

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