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Subject: Re: 2>&1
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Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When using cron, I understand the >/dev/null thing OK, but what 
> exactly does >2&1 do? Is it usefull anywhere else? Where might one 
> find ducumentation on it?
>
> -Grant
>
The standard stream stdout has the assigned number 1, and the stderr has 
number 2. The >/dev/null redirects stdout to /dev/null and 2>&1 means 
redirecting stderr to stdout, so it goes to /dev/null as well.

Gabor Kovesdan