From: Holden Glova <dsafari@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T07:46:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8307] Re: "Catching" "command not found" when using backquotes?

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Hello

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:15, I think Robert Feldt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there some way of preventing the "command not found" printed by Ruby
> when the command specified in backquotes isn't found? The example in the
> book (p. 75) shows how to get an exception back when this happens but it
> doesn't avoid printing the "command not found" message to stderr.
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert

You could redirect all stderr to /dev/null for example, say you want to the 
date, but you typo'd and typed day instead of date.

`day 2>/dev/null`

That will redirect all your stderr straight to bit-bucket heaven. Hope that 
helps you out.
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Signed,
Holden Glova
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