On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 01:20 PM, Marcus Bointon wrote:
This is something I see every now and again that I don't quite understand.redirects the 2nd filehandle to the 1st. In shell, 1 = STDOUT (text to the screen), 2 = STDERR (errors to the screen)
Some commands have something that looks like a redirection, but doesn't seem
to make any sense to me, for example (during a build of the jpeg6b library):
gcc -O2 -I/sw/include -I. -c ./wrjpgcom.c -o wrjpgcom.o >/dev/null 2>&1Ignore that it's gcc etc, what does the "2>&1" at the end mean/do exactly?
in this particular case, you're redirecting output to /dev/null, and then errors to the "regular" output, which ends up going to /dev/null as well.
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