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  1. From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
  2. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 14:49:00 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: standard error redirect
  4. Message-ID: <28510401@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com>
  5. Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
  6. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!col.hp.com!news.dtc.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcc05!hpbbn!hpuamsa!franks
  7. Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
  8. References: <1992Dec16.230108.14178@news.nd.edu>
  9. Lines: 13
  10.  
  11. mandell@bach.helios.nd.edu (Dan Mandell) writes:
  12.  
  13. > We would like to clean up a junk
  14. > directory and this is a daily chore.  I'm trying syntax like the following in
  15. > some preliminary tests, and finding that it doesn't work.  If I can get it
  16. > working I'll enter it in cronfile.
  17. > 
  18. >        rm -f /usr/junk/* 2> /dev/null
  19. > 
  20. > What am I doing wrong?
  21.  
  22.   Please define "it doesn't work", i.e. what do you expect to happen and
  23. what does actually happen ((error) message, nothing, etc.).
  24.