Redirecting input from cron job

Asked Apr 25 '19 at 12:35

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I'm using a plugin manager for vim (vim-plug), and have a cron job to perform updates:

vim +PlugUpgrade +qall &>/dev/null; vim +PlugUpdate +qall &>/dev/null

This job occasionally produces output like this:

Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

which gets sent to my mail. Does anyone know why it's generating this output despite redirecting to /dev/null (and how to stop it)?

edited Apr 25 '19 at 13:07

Jeff Schaller

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asked Apr 25 '19 at 12:35

xXDARKBLAZEXx

AFAIK &> is a "bashism" - are you sure cron uses the bash shell on your system? – steeldriver Apr 25 '19 at 12:38
That's probably it, thanks - I mistakenly assumed it'd use my user's default shell. – xXDARKBLAZEXx Apr 25 '19 at 12:42

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