[TriLUG] scripting question

[Chris Merrill]

The FLAC>MP3 converter script I posted about earlier has one annoying little
behavior.  It spews a lot of crap to the screen.  I am somewhat confident it
comes from this line:

if ! lame --genre-list | grep "${command[$((i+1))]}" >/dev/null; then
	command[$((i+1))]=""
	[ "$verbose" ] && echo "Nullified the genre tag as the specified genre does not exist."
fi

where command[$((i+1))] is some parameter it is looking for in the output from
the "lame --genre-list" command.

I think the output from "lame --genrelist" was supposed be grepped and all
output piped to null, but it is appearing on the console anyway.

Can anyone suggest a modification to the above code that would keep the output
from reaching the console (except the echo, of course) ?   I should probably
dig up some bash scripting references figure this out myself...but I'm supposed
to be working right now   ;)




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