Followup: How to shut up dbaccess.

Thanks to all of you who responded to my original post. In order to remove the annoying "Connected to database." messages from dbaccess, you have to pipe stderr to /dev/null or some other file. For example: echo "drop table $tabname" | dbaccess $dbname 2>/dev/null >drop.log will pretty much get rid of the connecting messages BUT all other errors as well. Request to Informix: -------------------- Could you please put a switch on dbaccess to eliminate the unnecessary chatter from stderr? There is a -q switch on dbschema, could it also be done on dbaccess? I am not trying to make a mountain out of a molehill, but it would make my life easier. Robert Walters Norand Corp. walterba@norand.com