In <20090814143355.ga5...@146653177.ece.utexas.edu>, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:08:16PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> Without ">/dev/null 2>/dev/null"
>
>Minor tip. You can replace > /dev/null 2> /dev/null with the shorthand
>&> /dev/null to achieve the same effect. :-)

...in bash.  It's not POSIX standard.  It's also not supported by a number 
of alternative shells for Linux.

I use '>/dev/null 2>&1', which is portable.
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