silent/shh - shorthand to make commands really quiet

silent(){ $@ > /dev/null 2>&1; }; alias shh=silent

Sometimes I just want to run a command quietly but all that keyboard shifting makes my fingers hurt. This little function does the job eg.: if shh type less; then PAGER=less; fi

By: bhepple

2010-01-04 01:01:03

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Nice idea, but why bother with the alias? Why not just call the function "ssh"?

flatcap · 746 weeks and 4 days ago

For clarity? 'silent' is a bit more explicit than 'shh'.

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Being dyslexic, it took a few minutes to figure out that you weren't doing something odd with ssh!

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Wouldn't it be safer to put the $@ in double quotes to have each of the parameters (including the command itself) properly quoted, even if they contain blanks?!

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projack · 10 weeks and 1 day ago

What do you think?

Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?

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