[Chicago-talk] How to subvert error message.
Mike Schienle
mgs at customvisuals.com
Wed Jul 12 08:11:05 PDT 2006
Richard Reina wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to execute a system command with out the console printing
> an error message? I wan't to do system("play soundfile.wav") but I do
> not want the error message to print out if the file cannot be played.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can redirect the stdout and stderr to /dev/null.
play soundfile.wav > /dev/null 2>&1
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Mike Schienle
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