14 Dec
2004
14 Dec
'04
3:21 a.m.
On Dec 13, 2004, at 18:31, Ian White wrote:
Sorry, didn't realise the message was not in its own thread - started again here.
Replying to the new thread, although it's for the OP :)
On 13 Dec 2004, at 17:24, David Wooten wrote:
[...] Now the closest I've come is to "echo" the comma and send the results to the current window, but of course this also gives me the output from the command which I wish to be discarded.
You can silence a command by redirecting it's output to /dev/null. So e.g. the command could be: cat >/dev/null somefile echo ,
And it should only output “,”.