On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Rolf Nielsen <listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm wondering if there's a way to supress the summary output from dd. I'm > working on a backup script, that encrypts the backups, and after encrypting > overwrites the unencrypted file several times using dd. I've tried to > redirect the output with 2>&1 > /dev/null but it doesn't work. Since I run > the script from the daily_local variable in periodic.conf, and the script > backs up 11 filsystems (ZFS) to separate files, the mail from periodic daily > gets ridiculously long, and most of it being dd summaries. > > I guess I could hack the source code of dd, but I'd prefer not to have to. > Has anyone got any ideas? > > Thanks in advance and Merry Christmas to all of you, > > Rolf Nielsen
Order matters. dd ... >/dev/null 2>&1 -- Noel Jones _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
