[1586] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Netscape 3.01 for Linux and Java fixed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Feb 18 12:21:45 1997
To: "Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:21:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: "Bruce R. Lewis"'s message of Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:41:01 GMT
"Bruce R. Lewis" <brlewis@MIT.EDU> writes:
> It seems to work, but it also prints
> out the font path when starting. The output of the egrep
> line should probable be redirected to /dev/null.
>
> That's odd. I've always known variants of grep on other platforms to
> treat -s as "silent mode." What does the linux man page say about this
> option?
-q Quiet; suppress normal output.
-s Suppress error messages about nonexistent or
unreadable files.
FWIW, I think POSIX.2 says the same thing about these options.
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