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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2002 01:49:40 +0800 (CST)
From:      =?iso-8859-1?q?adrian=20kok?= <adriankok2000@yahoo.com.hk>
To:        zaa@ulstu.ru
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: /dev/null 2>&1
Message-ID:  <20020114174940.72104.qmail@web21210.mail.yahoo.com>

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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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