Re: do shell script without blocking?
Re: do shell script without blocking?
- Subject: Re: do shell script without blocking?
- From: Stephen Jonke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:43:19 -0500
What does the & mean in that context? 2>&1 as opposed to 2>1?
Steve
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
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.
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