Maxl script in unix

Hi Experts,
how to run the maxl script in linux platform in silent mode.I am invoking the maxl script through shell script. If I run the script linux screen shows all the dimension load status for all dimension.
Thanks in advance.

That's because STDOUT (which you have redirected to dev/null with ">") and STDERR are separate streams. The error / warning messages are on STDERR.
Try redirecting with..>/dev/null 2>&1I'm not a shell scripting expert by any means; suggest Googling 'redirect STDOUT STDERR' to understand what's actually going on.
EDIT: Since the OP has marked this post 'Correct' (Robert really had the complete correct answer first!) I have corrected the syntax to avoid confusion for anyone who gets here in future via search.
Edited by: TimG on Oct 17, 2012 5:55 AM

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