Re: do shell script without blocking?
Re: do shell script without blocking?
- Subject: Re: do shell script without blocking?
- From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:24:39 +0000
on 16/2/05 2:34 pm, Stephen Jonke at email@hidden wrote:
> Unix question, then: I know what the "> filename" does, but what does
> the "2>&1" do?
1 = stdout (output)
2 = stderr (error)
2>&1 sends ouput 2 to the same destination as output 1
You'll often see that 2 (and sometimes 1) is redirected to /dev/null which
is also known as the bitbucket and means that you don't get bothered by
error messages littering your logs and script output.
--
Martin Orpen
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