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The following first sends stdout to <tt>/dev/null</tt>, and then sends stderr to where stdout is now pointing (ie sends both to <tt>/dev/null</tt>, which is probably not what you want for redirection, but it's excellent for getting silent output from a command):
<verbatim>
somecommand >/dev/null 2>&1
+</verbatim>
+
+As an alternative, to send both stdout and stderr to the same place you can use the <tt>&></tt> redirector:
+
+<verbatim>
+somecommand &>/dev/null
</verbatim>
See CshProgrammingConsideredHarmful for some trickier examples.
