Re: Running 'export' silently

Frank Ober wrote in message <35FC80C0.2676B80E_at_verio.com>...
>I have looked at the documentation for export as part of 7.3.4.1 and
>cannot seem to find a way to run export silently (from a shell script
>that runs via cron) on Solaris 2.6.
>I have been stumped for several tries on what seems to be a simple
>thing. I have tried the standard out and error redirect to /dev/null and
>standard things like that but the exp still forces output to the
>terminal.
>
>Any ideas?

If you want to eliminate info about export progress try this: $ exp user/passwd file=foo log=foo <parameter_list> 2>/dev/null

Export writes it into stderr (as Jurij has said before). Stdout is only written by exp when you specify file=stdout.

HTH,
Piotr Kolodziej
pkol_at_otago.gda.pl Received on Tue Sep 15 1998 - 13:01:52 CDT