How to redirect output away from /dev/null

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Published on 2010-03-24T12:28:27Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 12:33 UTC
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I have an application that runs the a command as below:

<command> >& /dev/null

I have no control on this. All the o/p generated by this command goes to /dev/null. I want the output to be visible on screen or redirected to a log file.

I tried to use freopen() and related functions to reopen /dev/null to another file, but could not get it working.

Do you have any other ideas? Is this possible at all?

Thanks for your time.

PS: I am working on Linux.

-Gowtham

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