Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:52:04 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> Cc: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@lmc.ericsson.se>, Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Re: natd locks me out Message-ID: <3AFD7844.F74F0B8F@DougBarton.net> References: <20010511105928.A22838@woody.ichilton.co.uk> <3AFBEFE6.ED85C80C@lmc.ericsson.se> <3AFC0A97.2E570C0F@lmc.ericsson.se>
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"Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" wrote:
> > > sh rc.firewall > firewall.out 2>&1
>
> ... is the correct syntax
The way I try to remember it is that "2>&1" means, "Send STDERR to wherever
STDOUT was redirected to." If you think of it that way, that bit has to
come at the end because it doesn't make sense for it to come first since
STDOUT hasn't been redirected anywhere yet.
HTH,
Doug
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