On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote:
> > but what 2 stand for and why &1 , why not just 1 ?
>
> Those numbers are actually the Filehandle to use. 0 is STDIN, 1 is
> STDOUT, 2 is STDERR.
the & says that what follows is a file descriptor and not a filename.
if you just do >1, it will write to a file named 1.
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