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From: Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>
To: pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: null output?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:46:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k0b38fs.fsf@zeitkraut.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEe_xxii0b_gJSxY9ruh1pW_gXcNUp9wXn1_QPJjkupYnfzj8A-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>


William Lupton <wlupton-QSt+ys/nuMyEUIsrzH9SikB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org> writes:

> When testing I find that I quite often don't care about the output
> (because I care about filter output), so I often redirect stdout to
> /dev/null.
> This is fine, but I wondered whether there could / should be (or indeed
> is) a way of indicating that no output is desired. This might, for
> example, be indicated via --to "" or --to null?

I usually use `-o /dev/null` when developing Lua scripts: that will
discard the document, but preserves any `print` messages and warnings
that my scripts may produce.


-- 
Albert Krewinkel
GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe  e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124


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2022-06-23 11:23 William Lupton
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2022-06-23 11:46   ` Albert Krewinkel [this message]

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