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If you run a command in a terminal, "standard output" is the terminal---ie it displays on the screen. If you have a file named "stdout", how big is it? Does it have ANY data?
To purposely put the output of fsck into a file:
fsck /dev/sda8 >filename 2>&1 (this sends (re-directs) stdout to filename, and sends stderr to the same place)
Note that there is actually a file called "stdout". It's in /dev and is a special device file.
Any text sent into this file gets printed on your shell's stdout (terminal typically).
"cat /dev/stdout" doesn't do much good, since "cat" will try to read from a device that's normally used for writing (ie writing to your terminal window) only.
Note that there is actually a file called "stdout". It's in /dev and is a special device file.
Any text sent into this file gets printed on your shell's stdout (terminal typically).
"cat /dev/stdout" doesn't do much good, since "cat" will try to read from a device that's normally used for writing (ie writing to your terminal window) only.
Aha!!!!
If that is the file he was looking at, it all makes sense. OP--where are you??
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