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I usually use the &- with exec but IMHO the first command is to close the myscript stdout
But the second one is just redirecting all the output of the script to /dev/null (It is just if you don't care what is the output of that file - just like discarding the output)
Regards,
Khalid
But the second one is just redirecting all the output of the script to /dev/null (It is just if you don't care what is the output of that file - just like discarding the output)
Regards,
Khalid
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