How to ignore error messages in bash on Ubuntu?
I'm trying to show the number of lines, words and characters of all configuration files in /etc/*conf (with command wc).
How can I modify the command (or commandline) to not view the error messages?
wc /etc/*conf 2>/dev/null
i don't have access to a shell right now, but you can try something like
cat /etc/*.conf 2> /dev/null | wc -l
That should redirect all the errors and leave the output to be passed to wc