[TriLUG] scripting question

[Scott Lambdin]

add 2>&1 after /dev/null?  to also send stderr to the bitbucket

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Chris Merrill <chris at webperformance.com>wrote:

> 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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