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I was looking for a solution about a silent kill command and I successfully found the solution here , in the forum , by the command:

kill -9 "process_name" &> /dev/null

but , my question is:

What does " &> /dev/null " mean?

Any tips and advice will be appreciated!

Thank you

Vittorio Chierici
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&>/dev/null redirects all of the output from STDOUT and STDERR to the bitbucket /dev/null. Any output can be redirected to /dev/null and it is silently discarded.

msw
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Dave
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    &>/dev/null doesn't redirect STDERR, only STDOUT. – brimble2010 Apr 22 '13 at 13:50
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    @brimble2010 - I'd agree with you if you were correct http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Redirecting-Standard-Output-and-Standard-Error – msw Apr 22 '13 at 14:01