Suppress output of loud commands you don’t want to hear from

$ function quietly () { $* 2> /dev/null > /dev/null; };

Suppresses all output to /dev/null. This could be expanded to check for a -l command line option to log the stderr to a file maybe -l file or -l to log to default quietly.log. I’m finding that I use it more often than one would think.

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