On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, vic wrote: > How can I stop the error messages xastir spits out when started > from xterm and put into the background like this; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > xastir & > > That returns the xterminal for my use, but is annoying to get my > work blown off the screen by messages from xastir while it's > running. I know somebody here knows how to take care of this.
(xastir 2>&1) >/dev/null or (xastir 2>&1) > filename.txt Those are BASH or BOURNE redirects for STDERR to STDOUT, then of course piping STDOUT to a file or to NULL. Run the first in a subshell () and you should get everything redirected to STDOUT. -- Curt, WE7U: <www.eskimo.com/~archer/> XASTIR: <www.xastir.org> "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir