From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 00:14:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25291 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 00:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dart.sr.se (dart.SR.SE [193.12.91.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25281 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 00:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gunnar@pluto.sr.se) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dart.sr.se (8.8.2/8.7.3) id JAA06741 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:14:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from unknown(134.25.188.196) by dart.sr.se via smap (V1.3) id sma006731; Fri May 22 09:14:36 1998 Received: (from gunnar@localhost) by pluto.sr.se (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA09663; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:14:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gunnar) Message-ID: <19980522091434.12772@sr.se> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 09:14:34 +0200 From: Gunnar Flygt To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Newbie question Reply-To: flygt@sr.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by pluto.sr.se id JAA09663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id AAA25287 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What does the ´>/dev/null 2>&1' seen in many compilations actually do? I understand that the output is redirected to null but the rest does what? -- regards, Gunnar email: flygt@sr.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message