Controlling stdin and stdouts of other executables

[Dave Eisen]

>)...
>)If all you want to do is IGNORE the error and standard output from your
>)command, then the following should work:
>
>You don't want to close the standard streams, you want to connect them
>to /dev/null, quite a difference!
>

and this is most easily done using the shell's usual redirection operators:

system ("command > /dev/null 2>&1");



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