Re: do shell script without blocking?
Re: do shell script without blocking?
- Subject: Re: do shell script without blocking?
- From: "Adam K. Wuellner" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:06:36 -0600
On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:43 AM, Stephen Jonke wrote:
What does the & mean in that context? 2>&1 as opposed to 2>1?
Steve
I'd love an explanation in plain English, too... I suspect it's
necessary to distinguish between file descriptors (0, 1, 2), and
filenames. Perhaps 2>1 redirects STDERR to a file named "1", rather
than combining STDERR and STDOUT. Just guessing, here.
Here, FWIW, is what the bash manpage has to say about it:
[...]
Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error
Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and
the stan-
dard error output (file descriptor 2) to be redirected to
the file
whose name is the expansion of word with this construct.
There are two formats for redirecting standard output and
standard
error:
&>word
and
>&word
Of the two forms, the first is preferred. This is semantically
equiva-
lent to
>word 2>&1
[...]
Duplicating File Descriptors
The redirection operator
[n]<&word
is used to duplicate input file descriptors. If word expands to
one or
more digits, the file descriptor denoted by n is made to be a
copy of
that file descriptor. If the digits in word do not specify
a file
descriptor open for input, a redirection error occurs. If word
evalu-
ates to -, file descriptor n is closed. If n is not
specified, the
standard input (file descriptor 0) is used.
The operator
[n]>&word
is used similarly to duplicate output file descriptors. If n
is not
specified, the standard output (file descriptor 1) is used.
If the
digits in word do not specify a file descriptor open for
output, a
redirection error occurs. As a special case, if n is omitted,
and word
does not expand to one or more digits, the standard output and
standard
error are redirected as described previously.
[...]
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