Setting Echo Off

Joseph_Antoine · February 5, 2009, 6:47am

Hi

How to set the ECHO off in shell scripts so that the default output will be hidden.

danmero · February 5, 2009, 7:02am

Sound like BASIC
You need to send stdout to /dev/null

echo "test" 1>/dev/null

pludi · February 5, 2009, 7:07am

To set it for the whole script, put in this somewhere at the beginning

exec 1>/dev/null