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Petr Tesarik
ptesarik@fosstodon.org
@wagi Heh, that's because only echo stderr is redirected to /dev/null, but the error message is from zsh itself as it tries to redirect stdout. This would work:
$SHELL -c 'echo "foo" > file' 2> /dev/null
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@wagi This also works:
(echo "foo" > file) 2>/dev/null
{echo "foo" > file} 2>/dev/null
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K. Ryabitsev
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Petr Tesarik
ptesarik@fosstodon.org@monsieuricon @wagi Not sure what you mean. FWIW both of the above lines produce no output with zsh-5.9.
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K. Ryabitsev
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Petr Tesarik
ptesarik@fosstodon.org@monsieuricon @wagi But I think it does not matter whether "echo" is a shell builtin. You would run into the same issue if the redirection fails for an external command.
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