Re: make question (suppress Error)

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "James" <hslee911@yahoo.com> writes:

  j> How do I suppress Error message or is it possible?

  j> $ cat makefile
  j> all:
  j>         - ls *.zzz 2>/dev/null
  j> $ make
  j> ls *.zzz 2>/dev/null
  j> make: [all] Error 1 (ignored)

  j> I do not want the last line
  j> make: [all] Error 1 (ignored)
  j> to be shown.

Make will print that message if the script exits with a non-zero error
code.  So, if you don't want to see it, just make sure that doesn't
happen.  Something like:

 all:
         - ls *.zzz 2>/dev/null; exit 0

for example.

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