On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:04:57PM -0700, The Gyzmo wrote:
: Why do you have to put '2>&1' after '/dev/null' when
: piping something to /dev/null, like this:?
:
: [command] > /dev/null 2>&1
You've got it backwards.
[command] 2>&1 > /dev/null
2 == stderr
1 == stdout
You redir stderr into stdout, then shoot the whole thing into /dev/null.
You don't HAVE to do this, just when you want to discard any output
from a command.
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