query: What does outputting to /dev/null accomplish in bash scripts?
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positive_passages.text: What does 2>/dev/null mean?
negative_passages.docid: 15296
negative_passages.text: How can I assign the output of a command to a shell variable?
negative_passages.docid: 155110
negative_passages.text: What is the difference between executing a Bash script vs sourcing it?
negative_passages.docid: 54206
negative_passages.text: Can I recover a file from /dev/null?
negative_passages.docid: 157012
negative_passages.text: How can I suppress all output from a command using Bash?
negative_passages.docid: 114349
negative_passages.text: What is a null-terminated string?
negative_passages.docid: 14233
negative_passages.text: How to redirect output of a running program to /dev/null
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negative_passages.text: Understand why a bash script is not executing main?
negative_passages.docid: 14304
negative_passages.text: Why does bash output data instead of executing, when a script is piped?
negative_passages.docid: 23075
negative_passages.text: In a bash script what does a dot followed by a space and then a path mean?
negative_passages.docid: 103604
negative_passages.text: Does bash recognize a variable declaration as string if you do not put the quotation marks?
negative_passages.docid: 75335
negative_passages.text: Bash test: what does "=~" do?
negative_passages.docid: 35796
negative_passages.text: Difference between 2>&-, 2>/dev/null, |&, &>/dev/null and >/dev/null 2>&1
negative_passages.docid: 74090
negative_passages.text: $_ vs !$. Last argument of the preceding command and output redirection
negative_passages.docid: 50925
negative_passages.text: How portable are /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr?
negative_passages.docid: 106701
negative_passages.text: Bash: What does ">|" do?
negative_passages.docid: 151444
negative_passages.text: What is the utility of piping to `/dev/null`?