> /----
> | revision 1.312
> | date: 2000/05/12 21:04:20; author: grossjoh; state: Exp;
> lines: +19 -4
> | Don't use "set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null". AIX chokes on
> | redirecting stderr here?!
> \----
>
> Isn't that nice? So. Can we be sure that `ls' is never a shell
> builtin, and that doing "2>/dev/null" on those commands never fails?
> I think we cannot be sure. (And also, the exit status of `cd' is
> sometimes queried, and that's always a shell builtin.)
>
> Does anybody have a suggestion?
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to solve ;-)
but you might like to try:
set +o history 1>/dev/null 2>&1
You may need to do it this way around:
set +o history 2>&1 1>/dev/null
Andrew
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