John Haxby schrieb:
Rainer Traut wrote:You only confirm the issue. Another example of the problem. [tr netplan2 bin]$ cd /tmp [tr netplan2 tmp]$ mkdir myDir [tr netplan2 tmp]$ rmdir -v myDir/ 2>/dev/null [tr netplan2 tmp]$ mkdir myDir [tr netplan2 tmp]$ rmdir -v myDir/ 1>/dev/null rmdir: Verzeichnis wird entfernt, myDir/ [tr netplan2 tmp]$What problem?Do you mean that the output caused by "-v" appears on standard error rather than standard output? Why do you consider that to be a problem?
As I said in my first post, I have cron scripts which should only give output if there is something wrong.
But 'rmdir' with -v option always writes to stderr so I always get mails from these scripts.
Fwiw 'rm' does not show this behaviour. Rainer