Re: Crontab errror

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From: Mike Loseke
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

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Thus spake <carheden@holly.colostate.edu>:
>Right, 1 is stdout and 2 is stderr.  What does 2>&1 do, route stderr to
>stdout (& tells it 1 is stdout not a file called 1, right?)?  Could I
>also use /dev/stdout>/dev/null?

 2>&1 redirects STDERR to STDOUT. Since STDOUT is already being directed
to /dev/null, by 1>/dev/null, anything also redirected to STDOUT will
then go to /dev/null. I've never seen "/dev/stdout>/dev/null" so I
couldn't say. It certainly isn't portable. If you leave out the "&"
on 2>&1, you get a file called "1" with STDERR output in it.

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From: mike@bamboo.verinet.com (Mike Loseke)
Subject: Re: Crontab errror
Date: 1998/09/08
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