hostname User$ quietly wget www.website.com/ hostname User$ _
This works even if there are spaces in any word in the command line. Show Sample Output
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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function q () { "$*" > /dev/null 2>&1; };
Of course in bash, you don't need the keyword 'function'!q() { "$*" > /dev/null 2>&1; };
* without quotes fails, if there are spaces in the command or its arguments. $* with quotes "expands to a single word with the value of each parameter separated by the first character of the IFS special variable." (man bash). So it tries to run the whole command-line as a command name.
So, the only valid option here is "$@". It expands to a list of quoted words, just like the original.