Re: [MacPerl-Porters] '> /dev/null 2>&1' equivalent?

At 21:56 -0500 2002.11.16, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>MakeMaker defines a macro to tack onto the end of a shell command to make it
>silent.  DEV_NULL.
>
>On Unix its '> /dev/null 2>&1'.
>Windows defines it as '> NUL'.
>
>MacOS Classic doesn't have a definition and that causes problems.  It means
>more code that really has to be is overriden in MM_MacOS.pm to strip out
>$(DEV_NULL) calls.
>
>Is there something MakeMaker can stick on the end of a command in the MPW
>shell (I think its the MPW shell that MM_MacOS is typically run with) to
>supress its output?

Yeah, it is also noted in test.pl:runperl():

    $runperl .= " \xB3 Dev:Null" if !$args{stderr} &&  $is_macos;

By default, stderr and stdout are both returned together.  \xB3 ("„") will
redirect STDERR.  Dev:Null is the null device.

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