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Here is a shell puzzle I can't answer (bash).

This returns exit code 1:

ping $HOSTNAME -c2 -W2 2&>1 > /dev/null

This returns the correct exit code every time (2, 1 or 0).

ping $HOSTNAME -c2 -W2

Why is the first one always returning 1? I'm just trying to hide/throwaway all the output of the ping command.

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Looks like the order should be adjusted to:

ping "$myHost" -c2 -W2 > /dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
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Answered here. Essentially, the first part > /dev/null sends stdOut to /dev/null, then you re-route stdErr to stdOut.

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