[PLUG] Suppressing Screen Display of Program Output

[Fred James]

Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Running a python application as a user I cannot redirect output of a shell
>command to /dev/nul; apparently only root can do that.
>
>   I don't want to send stderr to stdout, but to suppress the display when
>pdflatex is run in a system shell. What command do I use?
>
>TIA,
>
>Rich
>  
>
Rich Shepard
Not sure this is the problem, but that would be /dev/null, not /dev/nul 
(see below)
Regards
Fred James

(as user other than root ...)
$ echo boo > /dev/null
$ echo boo > /dev/nul
bash: /dev/nul: Permission denied
$