[nhc-bugs] Building nhc98 on Windows 2000

[Jon Bernard]

> > ?? you seem to assume that the redirection affects the executing
> >    shell itself, whereas, IMO, it only affects the command. so, if
> >    the shell can't find the command, no redirection, and the shell
> >    reports the error as usual, no?
>
> There seems to be a difference between bash and sh - the former behaves
> as I would like, the latter as you describe.

Under sh, something like

if (basename >/dev/null 2>&1); then echo foo; fi

will hide the shell's stderr.

Jon