Standard Error Redirect in TCSH script

Question

I'm trying to make a simple TCSH script that effectively emulates find and outputs to a file; in addition I want to eliminate any error messages sent to Standard Error.

#!/bin/tcsh

ls $argv > filelist 2> /dev/null

The find portion of the script seems to work as should, but the Standard Error redirect doesn't. What's the best way to "eliminate" error messages?

Answer 1

The syntax you tried is bashy. In tcsh, you can do:

(ls $argv > filelist) >& /dev/null

Note that >& redirects both stdout and stderr, but since stdout has already been redirected elsewhere only the stderr will make it through to /dev/null.