Question

I have this:

cd $dir

if[ $? -eq 0 ]; then ...
else echo "The directory doesn't exist"; exit -1;
fi

And what I want is that if the cd returns an error (on the 1st line) the error won’t be shown by the shell. I only want to be shown the message that I wrote.
I tried to do:

ret=$(cd $dir)

But that doesn’t work. How can I do it?

Answer 1

Redirect standard error:

cd $dir 2>/dev/null