On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Netocrat wrote:
> Axel Liljencrantz wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Netocrat wrote:
> >
> >>I can't find a way to suppress the error message generated by an attempt
> >>to run an unknown command. Redirection of stderr or stdout has no
> >>effect, nor does it make a difference whether the situation is
> >>interactive or scripted. This is a pretty useful thing to be able to
> >>do, especially in scripts. Does fish have an existing mechanism that
> >>I'm missing?
> >
> > There is no mechanism, other than redirecting the stderr of _fish
> > itself_ to /dev/null, which can only be done at startup.
> >
> > Suggestions of a simple and discoverable general purpuse way of doinf
> > this is welcome.
> >
> > Some possible methods:
> >
> > * Allow the user to change the debug level at runtime
> > * Allow the user to redirect stderr at runtime
> > * Do some magic to attempt to skip redirect parse errors on commands
> > where stderr is redirected. This may be arbitrarily hard for
> > moderatly broken syntax.
>
> Assuming non-broken syntax is reasonable since this is most useful in
> otherwise well-formed scripts. I'd find redirection of shell-generated
> error messages to the same place as the command/builtin/function/block's
> stderr whereever possible pretty useful behaviour.
I guess. It will require some code changes to be able to output as
many things as possible through redirections, definitely won't be in
1.19.0.
>
> The first two ideas may have merits of their own (e.g. for broken
> syntax) but for the situations I envisage they're unnecessary.
They may.
>
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Axel
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