Re: How to hide the output from echo "select..."|dbaccess sysmaster?

Huy Try: echo "select name from sysdatabase"|dbaccess sysmaster 2>/dev/null |grep eagle This will get rid of the Database Opened/Closed and 22 rows returned, but you will still have the header "name". But since you are grepping for eagle (so you are checking for the existence of the database eagle), you should have no problems with or without the 2>/dev/null redirect. HTH Sujit Huy Vu <huyv@usa.net> on 04/07/99 11:33:24 PM Please respond to Huy Vu <huyv@usa.net> To: informix-list@iiug.org cc: (bcc: Sujit Pal) Subject: How to hide the output from echo "select..."|dbaccess sysmaster? Hi all, I'm trying to hide some output displayed from the unix command below for example: echo "select name from sysdatabase"|dbaccess sysmaster|grep eagle Open database... <--------- would like to hide eagle 22 row(s) .... <--------- would like to hide Close database.. <--------- would like to hide I tried to redirect the output to /dev/null 2>&1 but not successful. Thank you in advance for any idea. H.V