On a script, I get some warning of the form awk: warning: escape sequence \( treated as plain (
.
Since I want to use the output of that script to do stuff, I want it to output only results and not warnings.
I can correct that warning easily, but is there a way to get rid of all warnings in awk?
Best Answer
Warnings and error messages are generally sent to stderr, and that seems to be the case for
awk
, so redirecting stderr to /dev/null should keep you from seeing those messages, like this: