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To: Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org>
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Subject: Re: output from 'builtin' command not redirectable
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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>

Ian Macdonald wrote:
>$ builtin foo &>/dev/null
>zsh: no such builtin: foo
>
>No matter what I do, I can't redirect the output of the 'builtin'
>command.

{ builtin foo; } &>/dev/null

Unfortunately this technique isn't portable to every shell, but it works
just as you'd expect in zsh.

-zefram