Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 14:53:05 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2>&1 Message-ID: <44799D31.6090400@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <00d601c68254$b814c330$6501a8c0@grant> References: <00d601c68254$b814c330$6501a8c0@grant>
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Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > When using cron, I understand the >/dev/null thing OK, but what > exactly does >2&1 do? Is it usefull anywhere else? Where might one > find ducumentation on it? > > -Grant > The standard stream stdout has the assigned number 1, and the stderr has number 2. The >/dev/null redirects stdout to /dev/null and 2>&1 means redirecting stderr to stdout, so it goes to /dev/null as well. Gabor Kovesdan
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