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Subject: Re: /dev/null 2>&1
To: zaa@ulstu.ru
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Hi Zaa

Thank you. But what is the purpose for it on the
system?

>for example, if you type 

>find / -name foo > /dev/null 2>&1

is seems that stdin is redirected to nowhere
(/dev/null)
and stderr is redirected to stdout e.g to /dev/null
too 

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