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05-07-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by nixcraft

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Try to get both stdout and stderr:

Code:

 var=$(cmd1 2>&1)

Just get stderr but send stdout to /dev/null

Code:

var=$(cmd1 2>&1 >/dev/null)

worked like a charm!

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