[Linux-disciples] Redirecting stdout from a running process

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

FIFO should work.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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?


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