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Old 12-30-2009, 12:04 AM   #1
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Question Please explain this :./install >install.log 2>& 1


Hello,
I know that to redirect the output of a command (in terminal) to a file we can use '>' like :
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./install > install.log
Recently I saw this:
Quote:
./install >install.log 2>& 1
Kindly explain what does the red portion do:
Quote:
./install >install.log 2>& 1
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Old 12-30-2009, 12:09 AM   #2
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Redirects standard error to standard out and therefore into install.log.

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Old 12-30-2009, 04:56 AM   #3
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Thanks evo2...
Any more explanations ???
like what does '2', '>', '&' and '1' etc signify separately..??
BTW I have come to know that '&' is used to execute a command in the background environment.

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"2" is std error and "1" is std out. Details on redirection can be found in th "REDIRECTION" section in the bash man page (I'm not yelling - section title is capitalized). '>&' is a distinct entity, not a compound form of '&' and '>'.

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Old 12-30-2009, 07:13 AM   #5
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Humm..Thanks a lot evo2..
Have nice days ahead..
 
  


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