Do not close stderr
2010-04-29
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<a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/do-not-close-stderr.html">A few years ago, I wrote a post commenting on how ugly this was:
$ someprog 2>/dev/null
I was nearly imploring the reader to close stderr:
$ someprog 2>&-
Some very knowledgeable anonymous commenter explained why that was a bad idea. At the time, I didn’t understand exactly what they were saying. As such, …
Authored By Amit Agarwal
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