[Linux-disciples] Redirecting stdout from a running process

[Stephen R Laniel]

Suppose I suddenly decide that I don't care to watch the
output of a process anymore, and I want to send it to
/dev/null. There must be a way to do this, right? At the
very least, there must be some way to do this via
indirection: when the process starts, send its output to
some other file -- say, /dev/fake -- which points to the
terminal normally. Then when the process is running, change
where it points.

But

a) I have no idea how to do this, and
b) I imagine there's some other way.

Any ideas?

-- 
Stephen R. Laniel
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